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...browser at a rummage sale, he sampled the new and the old and took the best from each. From the new he learned respect for the notes; from the old, devotion to what goes on between the notes. "I approached all those pianists like a bee," he says. "I owe them quite a lot, but I dismissed a lot in them too. If there's anything original about me, it is a composite of all of them." Compared with the best of his contemporaries, Rubinstein may lack some of the technical wizardry of Vladimir Horowitz, the intensely cerebral approach...
Modest & Meticulous. The Wildcats owe their sharpest claws to the fact that they have finally learned what Rupp modestly calls "the Kentucky system." Freely translated, it means run, run, run and never, never miss. A perfectionist rather than an innovator, Rupp decries such newfangled tactics as the zone press defense which he sometimes uses but insists on calling a "stratified, transitional hyperbolic paraboloid." He relies on ten offensive plays, which his team practices with a devotion to duty unseen since the Spartans of ancient Greece...
Normal Turmoil. Equally capable of a lively scrap is Attorney General Brooke, who was the first to go after the nomination. Unlike most successful Negro politicians, who owe their election to predominantly Negro constituencies, Ed Brooke, 46, led the G.O.P. ticket in 1962 and 1964 in a state with a Negro population of under...
...conducted every day for a year," says Lewis, "an opportunity few conductors get. It was a time to make all the mistakes, a luxury you can't afford when you're conducting a major symphony. The fact that I'm at La Scala now I probably owe to the Seventh Army...
...breadth of Cavanagh's support is clearly a result of his spectacular record in office. After his upset victory four years ago over incumbent Louis Miriani, Cavanagh did not owe any political favors and was able to frame both definitions and solutions of the city's problems. He began by slapping an income tax on everyone who lived or worked in the city, and in four years the city has been able to turn a large deficit into a surplus, to increase municipal services, raise salaries (police salaries went up 25 per cent), and lower the property tax, Cavanagh...