Word: topnotcher
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...especially to the educational third of HEW, which will be his particular baby-Hunt will bring a topnotch administrative ability and a knack for inspiring the people who work for him. In the field of education on a national level, Hunt leaves the specifics to others, thinks in terms of broad policy, good public relations and orderly progress. "It's not enough," he once said, "that each of us recognizes and accepts his personal accountability for teaching. It is essential that we have a clearly stated and accepted philosophy of education that expresses our values and that guides...
Died. Willi Baumeister, 66, topnotch West German nonobjective painter whose work was banned by Hitler; of a stroke; in his Stuttgart studio...
...Wouk is no tractmonger. He is first and last a topnotch storyteller, and his readers know it. Marjorie seemed slated to be a runaway bestseller. It was the unanimous choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club judges for September, and the publishers, Doubleday, took the hard-headed gamble of an initial printing of 100,000 copies...
...Music-Appreciation Records. All of them have had the same disadvantages: no regular big-name performers and merely average sound quality. Nonetheless, they operate at a tidy profit, and some are trying hard to improve their wares, e.g., the Book-of-the-Month Club has begun releasing topnotch Angel disks, such as Debussy's La Mer, and has made a deal with New York's Metropolitan Opera for Met cast recordings. Last week Columbia Records, one of the biggest major labels, lowered itself into the mail-order maelstrom, announced its own record club with a million-dollar advertising...
...through a difficult program of concertos with Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and played beautifully. Critics, customers and Pianist Serkin all agreed: the orchestra had come of age. So had the conductor; at 39, Robert Shaw had made the difficult transition from a brilliant leader of voices to a topnotch director of musicians...