Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of its existence, the Berlin has had only four principal music directors, each a master. Hans von Bülow, an eminent pianist and one of the first great conductors, exposed the fledgling orchestra to the great composers of the day, among them Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. His successor Arthur Nikisch, who led the Philharmonic from 1895 to 1922, inspired a rapturous comment from the demanding Tchaikovsky. "He doesn't conduct," said the composer. "He seems to surrender himself to some mysterious magic force." Wilhelm Furtwängler instilled in the orchestra a sense of musical adventure, leading...
...Chiefs view of the U.S. military rescue effort that ended with the abandonment of flaming aircraft and eight American bodies in an Iranian desert. He vividly describes the all-night negotiating vigil of his last hours as President and tells how he felt as he listened to his successor deliver his Inaugural Address just moments before the hostages were finally flying out of Iran...
...obvious that the Shah would have to leave the country before order could be restored. However, I agreed with him that he should do so with dignity, in accordance with his own schedule and only after a stable successor government had been established. Sullivan, however, was recommending that we oppose the plans of the Shah, insist on his immediate departure and try to form some kind of friendship or alliance with Khomeini. I rejected this recommendation because the Shah, Bakhtiar and the Iranian military leaders needed consistent American support...
...recollections he had dictated daily while serving in the Oval Office. In Part 1, Carter not only reviews the tumultuous days at Camp David but also comments, in an exclusive four-hour interview with TIME, on current Middle East relations and on the policies, foreign and domestic, of his successor, whom he does not admire...
...relations with his successor. I made one courtesy call at the Oval Office, but my relationship with Reagan is nonexistent. I am not asking for an assignment, but I think a former President can certainly be helpful. I called on Nixon and Ford regularly to help me. We briefed them often, possibly more than they actually wanted...