Word: wilhelm
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...Mary continued with the UC even after he lost the election, but soon took on a paid administrative job at the IOP. There, then-fellow David Wilhelm, who’d been the national manager of the Clinton/Gore campaign in 1992 and went on to be the youngest person to chair the Democratic National Committee, saw something in him: a babysitter...
...surprise that 421 out of the 506 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America named Eckersley for induction into Cooperstown on January 6. Eckersley is only the third primarily relief pitcher to be elected to the Hall of Fame, following Rollie Fingers and Hoyt Wilhelm. In a week in which Pete Rose stole the headlines in order to try to gain his own election to Cooperstown, Eckersley’s sterling character provides a wonderful contrast...
With its inclusion of the Busch’s first original art work—Arthur Kampf’s portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II, one of five paintings among an array of prints and drawings—the exhibition reminds audiences of the museum’s conservative origin...
...England. Of all the musical professions, conductors tend to reach their peak in later years, after acquiring the life experience and authority to mine the deepest riches of an orchestra. None of which bothers Harding. "It is an older man's game," he concedes. "But the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut at 19, so there are exceptions!" Harding is making his own rules. As a young teenager in Oxford he would conduct groups of friends on weekends. Artistically ambitious, he decided to try a rare piece by Schönberg, but found it so difficult...
...West's cliché," he says. "We didn't want to exhibit art from the G.D.R. as it had been shown as an export product for the West." Instead, the exhibit begins with a series of dark images, such as sketches of bombed-out Dresden after the war by Wilhelm Rudolph, who wandered among the ruins with notepad in hand. Then there is a collection of formalist drawings and paintings with winding lines and bursts of color, not only surprising because of their contrast to Rudolph's work, but also because they defied the Communist Party's diktat against abstraction...