Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton. He deserved credit not for what he had done but for what he had not done. This agreement was the work of others over decades. Clinton stayed out of the way in the last act and let it happen naturally. He did not posture or seek personal acclaim, but paid tribute to those who had long carried the heavy burden. Such acts are far too rare in the presidency, but they are just as much a measure of honor. Bill Clinton enhanced himself as well as those who had braved the road to the South Lawn...
...Lyric Stage, is a small play with big ambitions. In its Boston premiere, the William Finn musical is the first of the "Marvin" trilogy that Finn and James Lapine went on to complete, and while Falsettos, the Tony Award-winning combination of the latter two plays, has received much acclaim, the first one-act has merits...
Ginsburg became a judge back in 1980, appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, after she gained national acclaim as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She had won five landmark cases before the Supreme Court and had taken a novel approach to expanding the scope of the equal-protection clause by suing on behalf of men in some cases. She argued, for instance, that widowers as well as widows were entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also...
...teaching career, Boorstin was a prolific writer. His works include more than 20 books on American history and politics. In 1959, he received the Bancroft Award for his writing on the American colonial experience, and in 1966, he wrote a book on America's national experience that won him acclaim as recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize...
...achieved international acclaim with two novels, two volumes of poetry, several plays and a series of notes from his prison experiences titled The Man Died. In 1979 he directed Death and the King's Horseman in Chicago, which enhanced his reputation in the West