Word: zvi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Geological Sciences Zvi Griliches, Economics L.H. Loomis, Mathematics Willard Van Quine, Philosophy Ernest Williams...
...Nixon will also retain Richard Helms, 55, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The first CIA career man to head the agency, Helms has earned a reputation as a quiet, impartial professional during his ZVi years as director. He has not hesitated to express dissenting views within Administration councils (including pessimism about Viet Nam), and is noted for his candor in private congressional hearings. Except for the furor in early 1967 over the funding of private organizations, a practice Helms inherited, he has managed to keep the agency out of public controversy...
...unclear, it somehow communicates. Philadelphia Orchestra Bassoonist Bernard Garfield credits Mehta with "the ability to put himself into the music in a very, very intense way and to tell the musicians a great deal about how he wants it played." Says the Israel Philharmonic's chief concertmaster, Zvi Haftel: "He is more than just a gifted conductor. To change from Bruckner, which he conducts like a saint or an Indian priest, to Webern and then to Stravinsky with a burning fire and conviction-and transmit it to the orchestra-that is genius...
...take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling is a profanation to the Orthodox, students from Talmudic academies jumped into trucks bound for the frontiers with the solemn exhortation of noted Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook ringing in their ears: "Go! This is a matter of saving life, for which the Sabbath may lawfully be desecrated...
That the orchestra has been so successful despite these drawbacks is due chiefly to Zvi Haftel, 54, concertmaster and chief wheedler-needier. Haftel was among the original 72 musicians, including 20 concertmasters and first-desk players, recruited in 1935 from the best European ensembles by Violinist Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the orchestra. Toscanini, as a snub to Hitler, conducted the debut performance of the refugee orchestra in 1936. But the orchestra foundered under Huberman until 1946, when Haftel, leading a musicians' mutiny, took over...