Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cubism, however, was queen of art at the time; Chagall, who only knew Picasso casually, was out of the swim. His paintings at the Salon des Indépendants drew little acclaim and no money. Today, his paintings of 1910-14 are the most valuable and the most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding...
More Than Doubled. Lured to Boston from the University of Rochester, where he was serving as associate dean, Dr. Berry proved a master medical diplomat in his dealings with the high-ranking physicians and surgeons who had won for Harvard almost unanimous acclaim as the world's No. 1 medical school. Equally important was Dr. Berry's talent for raising money. He more than doubled the medical school's endowment, but perhaps his most notable achievement was to persuade his two schools and seven Boston hospitals, many of which had been openly jealous of one another...
...Haydn. The scores, written in the master's hand between 1762 and 1780, were in various states of disrepair. Landon set himself to the task of preparing them for production. Last week the Landon-restored Le Pescatrici (The Fisherwomen) opened at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam to critical acclaim: "A score which swarms with pleasing musical finds"; "Some arias and duets are jewels which nobody other than Haydn could have...
Mutual Feeling. The maestro himself, whose rapier tongue is legendary, was the very model of a cultural ambassador. When fans nearly jostled him off his feet at the Moscow Conservatory, he blithely passed the episode off as "a warm and interesting experience." The feeling was mutual; critical acclaim for the orchestra was nothing short of rapturous. Izvestia was alternately "enthralled," "fascinated" and "inspired...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A repeat of the April 5 documentary "Abortion and the Law," which drew critical acclaim but was largely missed by viewers who watched the Academy Award presentations that night...