Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even a festival devotedly committed to the classics can afford a little sophisticated comic relief, and that is what this play provides. The Lunts won vast acclaim with The Guardsman when they opened in it in 1924, though one can scarcely imagine this somewhat fragile comedy holding its own on Broadway...
...America." The critics vehemently disagreed and Jones went off to live in Paris. He and his blonde wife Gloria (once a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) were to spend 16 years abroad. Throughout, Jones kept doggedly writing, but never again did he achieve the acclaim of Eternity...
...last book of Life History and the Historical Moment in the New York Review of Books--praise him for precisely that thoughtfulness and candor. And it speaks to this ongoing curiosity and self-questioning, rare enough for an established thinker whose theories have gained such wide recognition and acclaim, that just as Roazen published the first comprehensive critique of Erikson's corpus, Erikson himself finished Toys and Reasons, a fragmentary but thought-provoking book that addresses itself to most of Roazen's major objections...
...century come alive; of heart disease; in London. A former advertising copywriter and novelist, Mrs. Woodham-Smith knew so much about Florence Nightingale that in 1942 she was urged to write her biography by a publisher friend. She spent six years working on her book, which earned unanimous critical acclaim. She also wrote about the charge of the Light Brigade (The Reason Why, 1953), the Irish famine and the early years of Queen Victoria. Of the long hours she spent digging into musty archives, Woodham-Smith explained: "Writing history is nervous work, thanks to the vigilance of other historians...
...most luscious psychedelia of the time with their low key vocals and cosmic instrumentals. Their drums hammered out traditional rock while their guitars varied between folk, jazz and Jimi Hendrix. Santana made songs like "Jingo,"Evil Ways," "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" famous after winning spectacular acclaim for their appearance at Woodstock...