The story, pulled from an almost impossibly rich historical record of scandal, ambition, double dealing and ideological grandstanding, is frantically busy, and the cast is too.
"Peter's record of achievement and ambition is unparalleled — I think he's saved the Met from brontosaurusdom, and I say that as someone who has been going to opera since 1958," says André Bishop, who as artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater has joined Gelb in establishing a commissioning program for new operas and musical-theater pieces.
It may be sentimental, overwrought, precious and narcissistic, but for all that, it remains a poignant record of adolescent joy, fear, ambition and angst.
Johnson's proposals also constitute part of his continuing policy of hitting Londoners in their pockets in pursuit of his political ambitions and record of backing bankers – the two coming together in Tory party politics.
At any given moment the desk at which I type this is littered with books, layers upon layers forming a sort of geological record of my failed, pseudo-intellectual ambitions.
The student, in a sense, could not escape history: Those who went far afield for education had a record of not returning, so individual ambitions were, in cases like this, often stymied.
His territorial aggression is a matter of record, his nuclear ambitions are clear.
"Sean brings with him a wealth of experience and a track record of success which matches the ambition of this football club.
Labour should never be frightened of robust discussion of its values, record, ambitions and policy platform.
In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes.
"Open Five" may be notable mainly for shifting the landscape of aimless, youthful contemplation from the city to the countryside, but its record of the ambivalent desires and drifting ambitions of a group of friends is artful enough to be touching as well as vague.
