Word: william
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt handled," says world champion backgammon player William G. Robertie '68. "He was on top of things and infallible...
...true Harvard, said William James [a Harvard graduate himself], `is the invisible Harvard in the souls of her more truth-seeking and independent and often very solitary sons.' This was an exact description of his Harvard. When it became a piety--a chesty motto suitable for fundraising or for framing on a new common-room wall--the golden age was over...
Coupled with this was the problem for young conductors trying to learn their repertory out of the spotlight. An overnight success could make a name, but at what cost? Michael Tilson Thomas, for example, sprang to fame in Boston by substituting for William Steinberg and then spent the next two decades dealing with the consequences of sudden celebrity. Still only 44, Thomas has matured into a fine conductor, and now leads the London Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps in recognition of the pitfalls of premature success, Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 37, started out in Grand Rapids and then went to Buffalo before...
...single room to $1,500 for the presidential suite. Foreigners must pay for their rooms in dollars, which will provide some much needed hard currency for Poland's government. The hotel hopes to attract swarms of Western business travelers, many of them from the U.S. Says William Tiefel, president of Marriott Hotels and Resorts: "A great many Polish Americans gave us a nudge in the right direction...
...where screams and smoke issued from the crumbled concrete of I-880. Beneath the smashed upper deck, some cars had been flattened to a height of 6 in. As survivors yelled for help, citizens long divided by race and class forgot their differences in a rush to assist them. William McElroy, an unemployed boilermaker who had just reached his home from the freeway, returned to the disaster. "We couldn't do a damn thing at first because we didn't have any equipment. We broke into a factory yard and got ladders. Then two kids came with forklifts from another...