Word: acclaim
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...involving the rise of Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) to ultimate power. A candidate thrust into the top seat after a military attack? Sounds like Spain after the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2003. A politician who is "scarred and disfigured" by his political enemies, yet survives to win the acclaim of his people? That's spookily like the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, now President of Ukraine (although the West sees him as a good guy). A leader who cements his command of the government after he lies about a military threat and makes a war? I can't quite place...
Friedman continues the informal mode of popular scholarship that earned him acclaim. Exclamation marks are everywhere, and Friedman coins several clever and useful monikers. “Developing Countries Anonymous,” for instance, expresses the need for underdeveloped countries to engage in self-reflection, openly avow their lack of development, and then consciously choose to fix it. He also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author’s reverence...
...wider world, Friedman is a high-profile New York Times columnist and a trained scholar on Middle East affairs. He established himself as the leading popular commentator on globalization with his 1999 work “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” which deservedly garnered acclaim for its accessible synthesis of globalization’s diverse effects and far-reaching possibilities. But “The World Is Flat” lacks its predecessor’s conceptual breadth and incisive exposition. The book often amuses and sometimes amazes, but the basic argument—that more...
...first semester at Radcliffe College, Kumin, who had just turned 17, placed into an advanced writing course taught by Wallace Stegner. Stegner would garner critical acclaim one year later for his largely autobiographical novel “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” but when Kumin first met him, he was still a relatively obscure member of Harvard’s English Department. Stegner’s sharp-tongued manner of speaking to students, as Kumin recalls, belied the sensitive prose that would define his fiction in later years...
...Princeton, dying at age 62 when his smoking habit finally caught up with him in the form of cancer. Oppenheimer had been publicly redeemed though. He received the Fermi Prize for public service from President Johnson, and he was portrayed sympathetically in a 1964 play that attracted international acclaim...