Word: wunderkind
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...festival with a more adventurous celebration of American music. He is also renotating and recording some of Aaron Copland's thorny early works, as well as continuing work on a major orchestral composition of his own. With his new-found maturity, not to mention a five-year contract, the wunderkind has grown up at last...
GRIGORI YAVLINSKY Democratic Wunderkind...
...Their style is very European, their picks are unusual, their offensive sets are extremely European," Delaney Smith--an American--said. "In fact, we might steal one or two of them." With the exception of sophomore wunderkind Allison Feaster, who contributed 19 points and 9 rebounds in the losing cause, the Crimson offense was pitiful, turning the ball over 21 times in the first half alone...
Mantle's father died in 1951, during Mickey's first year in the big leagues as a 19-year-old wunderkind. Mantle's father was not able to see Mickey's phenomenal career, where he hit 536 colossal home runs (the most by a switch-hitter, almost 200 more than his closest rival), roamed center field for the dominant Yankees, and set most World Series hitting records...
...handsome wunderkind was taken up by the literary powers in New York City, and his career seemed set to soar. But Vidal tells us that his third novel, The City and the Pillar, published in the unenlightened '40s and featuring an overtly homosexual love story, alienated the literary establishment and set him apart as a refugee in his own land. Later we follow him into the bright worlds of television and Hollywood, until he eventually takes refuge in the Old World of Ravello, in Italy, where he has lived for the past 30 years...