Word: wunderkinder
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...Wunderkind. The son of a successful Rhineland lawyer, Abs studied law at Bonn University, but quit to learn banking. After apprenticeships in Paris, Amsterdam, London and New York, he joined a private banking house in Berlin in 1929 and quickly attracted attention by his grasp of international finance. His appointment in 1937 as head of the Deutsche Bank's foreign department established him at 36 as the Wunderkind of German banking. Though he is a devout Catholic and did not join the Nazi Party, Abs, as a top banker, was inevitably involved in the Nazis' financial wheeling...
...converged on lushly landscaped Schwetzingen Castle, in the heart of the Rhineland. They crossed the moat, crowded through the rococo entrance gallery, sat down in the gilded 18th century theater and waited to be shocked. The program that promised so much musical surprise: the latest work by the controversial Wunderkind of modern opera, German-born Hans Werner Henze, 34, whose cherubic face and businesslike manner disguise a talent for brazen dissonance, eerie melody and phantasmagorical plots. For good measure, the libretto was by British Poet W. H. Auden and the U.S.'s Chester Kallman, their first since they teamed...
...tenth anniversary of his debut as a conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become a conductor (at 20), he abandoned promising careers as a pianist and composer, and he no longer yearns for those early loves...
...Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script of a novel. And he has been doing this sort of thing for half of his life. Says Ustinov: "This talk of Wunderkind gets more intense as I grow older and the white hairs crop out in my beard...
Witty Sting. Wunderkind Ustinov was born in London, a descendant of a titled Russian who was exiled in 1868. (Peter's grandmother owned the largest caviar fishery in czarist Russia.) His father, a German citizen, was a journalist, spent 14 years as press attache at the German embassy in London. Peter drifted out of school in his teens and into London cabarets, where his mocking monologues kidded diplomats and aristocrats, prima donnas and generals. At an irreverent 18, he enchanted Londoners by mimicking-in ersatz Swahili-an addled bishop of the Church of England who had stayed too long...