Word: wunderkind
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Died. David Oistrakh, 66, Soviet violin genius; of a heart attack while on tour; in Amsterdam. Raised in the musical hothouse of Odessa's Jewish community, Wunderkind Oistrakh rose rapidly through the conservatories and concert halls of the Soviet Union. In the cold war November of 1955, Oistrakh's first Carnegie Hall recital melted American critics. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy, businesslike performer, Oistrakh produced music with a luminous, flawless tone. In his last years, he grew into a first-rank conductor as well. On hearing of Oistrakh's death, American Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
Peter Van Delft, a District 65 organizer who is apparently the wunderkind of the university clerical workers organization, was once again in town this week, spreading the word at Phillips Brooks House, among other places...
...game that has gone truly international, the American champion ship competition has the biggest and best field of foreign players in its 93-year history: 80 performers from 26 countries. Some of the most talented competitors are the youngest, led by Swedish Wunderkind Björn Borg, 18, seeded fourth after his sweep of the Italian and French opens earlier this year and a recent victory in the U.S. Pro Championships in Brookline, Mass. If Borg falters on the grass at the West Side Tennis Club, Sweden's sorrow could turn into joy for Argentina or Mexico. The hottest...
...Fields of Force the symptoms are recalled with an intelligence that, like the champion's, has little room for compassion. Fischer's unstable personality, a fusion of Garbo and Barnum, is examined in all its two dimensions. The aging Wunderkind remains a prodigy, perhaps the most powerful grand master the world has ever witnessed. But from the opening gambit it is obvious that the author's affections are with Boris Spassky...
...joined the investment banking house of First Boston Corp. instead. Stunningly adept at financial analysis, he rose to a vice presidency and the board of directors by 1969, joined International Paper Co. a year later and revamped its financial structure. In 1972, though inexperienced in broadcasting, the corporate Wunderkind was tapped for the presidency of CBS. An outspoken opponent of Government interference with the media, he has also taken steps to accelerate the advancement of women at the network...