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...TIME'S hymn of praise to Sir Georg Solti is in effect a rhapsodic tribute to the Chicago Symphony and to its master builder, Fritz Reiner. When Reiner arrived in Chicago in the early 1950s, the orchestra that had been shaped so nobly by Frederick ("Papa") Stock had fallen on hard times. Maestro Reiner changed all that. Reiner's method centered on perfectionism, brought out with elan and excitement, yet with an economy of baton flicking, writhing, bouncing or grimacing...
...Never again." Breakfast of Champions is ultra-Vonnegut-marked by melancholy and self-indulgence, most visible in the graffiti-style drawings he has scattered through it. But it is a true creation, and true creations do not die - thus Noah and his Ark, the Adventure of the Norwood Builder and Son of Frankenstein. And soon...
Died. Matthew H. McCloskey, 80, Philadelphia builder and crack fund raiser for the Democratic Party; of cancer; in Darby, Pa. Though he built his construction company into one of the ten largest in the U.S., it was as a money raiser for the Democrats that McCloskey was best known. In 1934 he organized the first $100-a-plate dinner, and over the next 30 years he raised millions in campaign contributions. In 1962 he was appointed Ambassador to Ireland by President Kennedy...
Paper-plane builder Kline is sure that he has somehow violated Bernoulli's principle. "Sorry, Bernoulli," he says, "but our airfoil just doesn't work that way." But Aerodynamicist Nicolaides gently points out that there is still a pressure differential between the top and bottom of the wing caused by differences in air flow, although he is not yet sure how this is achieved...
...character was expressed in such glorious excesses as the romantic Schloss Neuschwanstein, the rococo Linderhof, and the unfinished imitation of Versailles, Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Ludwig's edifice complex may nearly have bankrupted his kingdom and cost him his throne, but he was, lunatic or not, the last great master builder of the Romantic...