Word: dmitri
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...other conductor Schuller acknowledges is Dmitri Mitropoulos, who was the music director of the New York Philharmonic at the time. "Mitropoulos really put me on the map when he conducted two pieces of mine in a season, which was unheard of. Next thing I know, I'm getting congratulatory letters from the leading American composers of the day, like Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. I was completely unknown at the time...
That's how I ended up at the top of the Empire State Building. I hoped that by getting above it all, I might be able to hear my friend Dmitri, transmitting from less than a mile away, on the 23rd floor of the Time & Life Building. Unfortunately, only one of the six radios I tested from on high worked clearly: Audiovox's GMRS-1525 ($240 a pair). Its superior reception, easy controls and rechargeable batteries made it my favorite...
...loaded down with extras (including 10 different beeps) that it's hard to find the basics. The best feature on Kenwood's Freetalk ($230 a pair) is the ability to scan for a free channel--a big timesaver--but it too suffers from overelaborate options and settings that left Dmitri and me bewildered...
...Even if it is not fun by Saturday night, and you feel like crap, you are just obligated. Every body goes out," Dmitri Lemmerman, a Brown sophomore, comments on the staying power of his classmates. A senior and Spring Weekend veteran agreed. "Right now I am tired. I don't even want to be here but I feel like I should be," Moises Zamora laughs at three o'clock on Saturday night as the noise on campus is just beginning to wane. Forty miles away in Cambridge, bio and orgo books are finally shut for the night...
...mask disguising real intentions. Those eyes are Putin's strongest feature--not counting his unflinching will. He has proved a consummate opportunist, riding into office on loyalty to his bosses and then war fervor. President Putin will succeed where predecessors failed, says Chief of Staff and confidant Dmitri Kozak, "because the will is there. Discipline and will...