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...ailing Arturo Toscanini. He jumped at it. Although it would be five more years before the orchestra would summon him from the podium of the Minneapolis Symphony to take over in Philadelphia, Ormandy remembers that first time he stepped onstage at the Academy of Music as his greatest thrill. After all these triumphant years, after all the honors and premieres and tours (including the first by a U.S. orchestra to Communist China), after making the Philadelphia probably the most recorded orchestra in history (many hundreds of LPs, three of which have topped sales of $1 million), he still looks back...
...accumulation of binders of notes, which students cram before exams as if they were just so much other reading and not what they had written themselves. The breakneck pace of reading and exam period does not allow much time for reflection; even so, the student may get a little thrill, when, upon rereading his notes, the course assumes shape, fuses and becomes coherent for the first time. Too bad that it could not have happened sooner...
...known wiretapping was illegal and were acquitted, but two private detectives whom they had hired went to jail. Most of all, Bunker shares his father's passion for trading. Says he, speaking of race horses but expressing a philosophy that also governs his business dealings: "It's a thrill to watch one turn into a winner...
...nonjudgmental look at their world; hundreds of them hired on as extras and played themselves onscreen. "The most positive benefit of Cruising," says one extra, "would be for it to make gay men examine their promiscuity, the areas they frequent, the type of sex they seek out, even the thrill of danger. The life we save...
...Convinced that news of Abscam was getting out, the FBI hurriedly completed its last interviews on the very Saturday that NBC, the Times and Newsday, each having checked out the facts on its own, broke the news. Naturally, nobody in charge at these three shops talks vulgarly of the thrill of a scoop...