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...months later, Bill Clinton was an instant has-been. In one of the truly stunning upsets of 1980, Democrat-turned-Republican Frank White, a plain-speaking banker and political novice, defeated the Wunderkind, 435,684 to 403,241. The main reason: voters had been alienated by Clinton's hifalutin ambitions...
Some family. Shirley is a theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson...
DIED. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 36, prolific, iconoclastic Wunderkind of the new German cinema, who gained international recognition with his 1978 The Marriage of Maria Braun; of undetermined causes (though an overdose of drugs and alcohol is suspected); in Munich. An acerbic leftist and avowed homosexual, he turned out some 40 films in 13 years. "I read something in the paper, or somebody tells me a story, and I know that second: I must make a movie out of it," he once said. Inspired by Brecht and Hollywood soap operas, his often autobiographical scripts dealt with the theme of power...
...ever questioned his intelligence, though. As a Wunderkind theology professor, he raced through appointments at five German universities and at 42 became deputy president of Regensburg. He is abstemious, hardworking, and as archbishop has earned a reputation for aloofness from his people but persuasiveness in his oratory. In 1980 the Pope assigned him to prepare the major reports for the International Synod of Bishops...
John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of Athletics and a onetime Harvard football manager, had--with the aid of King and managerial "wunderkind" John Fenton--revitalized the Undergraduate Manager's Council (UMC) to spur interest and participation in the program...