Bill George, retired CEO of Medtronic, calls it “authentic leadership,” or a quiet kind of charisma that puts a sense of values and purpose ahead of backslapping and magazine covers.
Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him.”
Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.
他们写作是件严肃事情,人们相信:甚至那些博学低调不喜欢炫耀评论家,比如 George Bernard Shaw 和 Ernest Newman也知道自己在做什么。
This year, several Olympics sponsors are keeping a relatively low profile around the Winter Games in Beijing due to escalating tensions between the US and China.