Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibilities. In Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, which he performed with the Tokyo String Quartet, Stoltzman glided effortlessly through long, sustained phrases. He caressed his instrument into whispery trills and treble work and then commanded a full-bodied tone as smooth as old wine. It was masterly Mozart, and the audience loved...
...more likely to cooperate than annihilate. The fact that history is filled with battles, says Leakey, "does not mean that the specific activity of war is written into our genes, [any] more than is the specific skill to play the game of football, the specific talent for making fine wine, or the specific inventiveness to design interplanetary rockets." It is nations that make war, he insists, not genes...
...efforts, Walker makes about $200,000 a year. He travels in a chauffeured black Cadillac, which he briefly exchanged during the 1973 energy crisis for a wine-red Buick, and frequents the fashionable Burning Tree Golf Club and Sans Souci Restaurant, where a salad of Bibb lettuce and anchovies is named in his honor. But he also cultivates a deceptively down-home cornpone image. He and Wife Harmolyn rarely go out at night. Most of their entertaining is casual, such as weekend barbecues-over mesquite wood from Texas. Walker has another specialty: fried catfish. Says he: "You get some Yankees...
...crushers and the bottling line, even paint the barrel hoops black because Joe wants them to look neat. His philosophy: "If your place looks like you don't care, your employees won't care. And extreme meticulousness is the most important factor in making fine wine." Or almost any other product...
...Peterson's. What impressed the visitors ... was the 'Yankee' ingenuity of various tricks and utensils about the place, rather than the place itself. Doors opening by 'magic' if you touch but one of them. Other doors swinging food in, as the mantle quietly slips wine bottles up ... He had a Connecticut Yankee's engineering mind inside a Southern gentleman's frock coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist. But that is what saves the image. He is the idealist as practical man-one who can make...