Word: wunderkind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similar types who wonder why 97 years doth a centennial make should address their inquiries not to the Castle, but to God, on Whose shoulders the responsibility rests. It was God and not the boys at Zero Freedom Square who, manifesting that recurrent and annoying disregard of detail, sent Wunderkind Marty Kaplan to us three years too soon. This obviously did not stop Marty, suggesting that the book might be viewed primarily as a monument to Free Will. In fact, my guess is that one hundred years from now, this book will not be remembered because it was especially funny...
Nauman, a 32-year-old body-artist, video-taper and conceptualist who works in California, is the present Wunderkind of the official avantgarde. His show, booked on the circuit to Bern, Dusseldorf, Milan, Houston and San Francisco, was jointly organized by the Los Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman...
...name of one composer was on everybody's lips last week in Berlin. So were words like Wunderkind. After all, hadn't he matured faster than Mozart? It was said that his talents as pianist and conductor were beyond those of any of his contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
...heroines in its television soap operas, the Columbia Broadcasting System is strongly attracted to interesting strangers. Last week, for the second time in a year, CBS reached far outside its own management ranks to select a new president. He is Arthur R. Taylor, a 37-year-old corporate Wunderkind with no broadcasting experience, who for the past two years has served as vice president and chief financial officer of International Paper Co. Taylor succeeds Charles T. Ireland Jr., who died unexpectedly last month at age 51 after less than a year on the job. Ireland, himself a surprise choice...
Vienna-born Bluhdorn, now 45 and a bit thinner and grayer than when he was the wunderkind of conglomerates several years ago, expects that The Godfather will lift G. & W. earnings close to their alltime record set in 1968. The company is likely to report sales of around $1.6 billion and net operating profits of slightly under $68 million, up $ 13 million from last year...