Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Joseph Papp, the nation's leading impresario of serious drama, decided to produce Cuba and His Teddy Bear at New York City's Public Theater, stage veterans gaped at the good fortune of Playwright Reinaldo Povod, 26. A product of Manhattan's turbulent Lower East Side, Povod had never before even written a full-length play. Envy turned to astonishment when Papp announced the show would star Oscar Winner Robert De Niro in his first stage effort since 1970's One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger. The seven-week off-Broadway run sold out in three hours. After...
...have recently received a letter from the committee in charge of the 350th Anniversary, informing me that the celebration in the Stadium in early September will be produced by the same impresario who gave us the opening and closing ceremonies of the Los Angeles Olympics. The letter says that for a mere $500, I can be admitted to the circle of honor, presumably halfway up and at midfield, for the best view of the spectacle...
...Later, without consult- ing Kohl, the White House announced that the President would address the European Parliament instead. The seeming ineptitude surrounding the Reagan plans is particularly surprising since it is the final project being handled by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the President's usually masterly impresario, be- fore he leaves the White House for private life...
...Ueberroth is an impresario embodying the renewed American spirit, that elan has taken up residence most notably among the generation of Americans called yuppies, the young urban professionals (aged roughly from the mid-20s to the late 30s) who are supplying much of the bright entrepreneurial energy driving the American economy. In the late '70s, Japan's imitative wizardry and its mysterious cultural-economic consensus were the international model to copy. Today the model, the source of envy around the world, is the freewheeling private initiative of the U.S. Much of the improvisational magic, especially in the booming high-tech...
...obvious, Ronald Reagan, who has been Man of the Year twice, and such makers of major news as Jose Napoleon Duarte, Geraldine Ferraro and the terrorist. TIME's readers, as ever, weighed in with dozens of candidates in hundreds of letters. In the end the editors chose Peter Ueberroth, impresario of the hugely successful Summer Olympics, because they saw in him the embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit that is flourishing...