Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Styron's novel has been given a Pulitzer Prize. Considering the wide critical success the book enjoyed, this result was foreseeable. Most of the novel's acclaim is explained to be due to these virtues: the human validity of its hero, the historical veracity of its factual information, and the merit of its social impact...
...Nina gained posthumous fame in the Soviet Union as Russia's Anne Frank. At the age of 20, she had been executed by the Nazis for her part in a partisan raid, and her diary of the dark days of the German invasion, published in 1962, won wide acclaim. Once rehabilitated, Kosterin spent much of his time criticizing Russian officialdom for its treatment of minority groups, notably the Crimean Tartars, and, more recently, dissident intellectuals, until he died of a heart ailment...
...YEARS AGO Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe, in the midst of a re-election campaign, made one of the few decisions that has ever won the ex-contractor any acclaim in Cambridge. Vope ordered a re-examination of the route which Cambridge's eight-lane nemesis, the Inner Belt highway, would take through the City...
...stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most men and acclaim others. It was my fate, my destiny...
...pages of superfluous background, oversimplified opinion and bloodshed (including murder by laser), the party in power reconvenes its convention and chooses a hard-liner as its presidential candidate. Drury concludes the book with a "dreadful thing" that occurs on the rostrum as the candidate receives the party's acclaim. Suddenly, everyone is slipping around in blood. What happened to whom, how and why are questions that the author undoubtedly plans to answer in his next book. But after Preserve and Protect, the really important question is: When will Drury cease and desist...