Word: wunderkinder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wunderkind...
...stomps cross court, determined to punish the ball for betraying him. The youngest player ever to receive an Association of Tennis Professions (ATP) world ranking has risen above the junior tennis mentality that constricted my back hand on big break points and has been the downfall of many wunderkind who far surpassed me in talent. He is playing now to challenge himself, to fulfill a greatness he knows is his, not to prove that thousands of dollars of lessons have paid...
...hunch is that Borg will fall this time around, probably to former-wunderkind now-daddy Jimmy Connors. In defeat, we might catch a welcome glimpse of emotion from Borg, who has too quickly surrendered his youth to a middle-aged staidness...
Which is not to say most will not find something useful or valuable. It includes, for example, caloric counts for popular junk food items (A Whopper has 606 compared to a Big Mac's 557); a broad bibliography; a profile of wunderkind Bill Rodgers; a re-evaluation of the specious but spiritually uplifting legend of Pheidippiedes; a thourough survey of running equipment, apparel, and periodicals; and up to the minute status reports on the latest pertinent medical studies...
...MANY STUDENTS at Harvard will ever get to know Derek Bok. In a little more than eight years as Harvard's 25th president, Bok has carved a niche as an administrative wunderkind, an effective manager of an institution confronted with increasingly limited means. Ask an undergraduate about Bok and you'll probably get a blank stare, a mumble about "open letters" or "hypocrisy." The last thing the average undergrad would say about Bok is that he "cares about students." And although he has visited every house this year to meet undergrads, the gap, he admits, remains...