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...game that has gone truly international, the American champion ship competition has the biggest and best field of foreign players in its 93-year history: 80 performers from 26 countries. Some of the most talented competitors are the youngest, led by Swedish Wunderkind Björn Borg, 18, seeded fourth after his sweep of the Italian and French opens earlier this year and a recent victory in the U.S. Pro Championships in Brookline, Mass. If Borg falters on the grass at the West Side Tennis Club, Sweden's sorrow could turn into joy for Argentina or Mexico. The hottest...
...Fields of Force the symptoms are recalled with an intelligence that, like the champion's, has little room for compassion. Fischer's unstable personality, a fusion of Garbo and Barnum, is examined in all its two dimensions. The aging Wunderkind remains a prodigy, perhaps the most powerful grand master the world has ever witnessed. But from the opening gambit it is obvious that the author's affections are with Boris Spassky...
...joined the investment banking house of First Boston Corp. instead. Stunningly adept at financial analysis, he rose to a vice presidency and the board of directors by 1969, joined International Paper Co. a year later and revamped its financial structure. In 1972, though inexperienced in broadcasting, the corporate Wunderkind was tapped for the presidency of CBS. An outspoken opponent of Government interference with the media, he has also taken steps to accelerate the advancement of women at the network...
...similar types who wonder why 97 years doth a centennial make should address their inquiries not to the Castle, but to God, on Whose shoulders the responsibility rests. It was God and not the boys at Zero Freedom Square who, manifesting that recurrent and annoying disregard of detail, sent Wunderkind Marty Kaplan to us three years too soon. This obviously did not stop Marty, suggesting that the book might be viewed primarily as a monument to Free Will. In fact, my guess is that one hundred years from now, this book will not be remembered because it was especially funny...
Nauman, a 32-year-old body-artist, video-taper and conceptualist who works in California, is the present Wunderkind of the official avantgarde. His show, booked on the circuit to Bern, Dusseldorf, Milan, Houston and San Francisco, was jointly organized by the Los Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman...