Word: wunderkinder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...label of wunderkind can be a fearsome burden for any mere mortal. When Peter Sellars, 27, was named director of the new American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy who had made his name with audacious updatings of Shakespeare, transplanted Handel's opera Orlando to Cape Canaveral and spiced up Maxim Gorky's 1904 play Summerfolk with songs by George Gershwin. Yet his first offering at Kennedy Center, a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I directed by Timothy...
...LuPone, Michael O'Keefe and Zakes Mokae all have riveting individual moments, yet seem completely in step with Sellars' overall vision. In one swoop, Sellars has brought a fresh burst of energy to America's long- running quest for a true national theater. And that is what being a wunderkind is all about...
...German wunderkind who astounded the math world last year turned down Harvard's offer his fall but the slot may still be open...
Schygulla, though, is a prima donna of passion. She learned her trade making 18 movies and TV films with the bold, relentless Wunderkind of German cinema, R.W. Fassbinder (Effi Briest, The Marriage...
...circulation has flowed smoothly, if somewhat sluggishly, since the argumentative sixties, will receive a hefty injection of new blood this fall. In the most notable of a series of administrative changes, 11-year veteran Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky this July handed the torch to 40-year-old wunderkind A. Michael Spence. In addition to learning the ropes in his new role, the former chairman of the Economic Department is acting as his own associate deans for undergraduate and graduate education...