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...brash, impulsive go-getter who won international acclaim last month for his near-faultless performance as State Minister in charge of the Olympic Games, Kono loves to be called "oya-bun," the admiring title given to the most ruthless gangster lords in feudal Japan. Today, it symbolizes a political boss who inspires unswerving loyalty and obedience in his supporters...
...vintage year for big art festivals. By coincidence, three famous periodic exhibitions fell in the same year that London's Tate Gallery put on its bold survey of a decade of invention. That exhibition introduced a host of young Londoners. Venice's 32nd brassy Biennale gave official acclaim to U.S. pop. Germany's didactic Dokumenta III then launched op. The 43rd Pittsburgh International, better known as the Carnegie, fails to find any new avantgarde, but makes up for this lack with a rich platter of hearty helpings: 401 paintings and sculptures...
While the giants--Ec 1, Hist 169, Nat Sci 5, and Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...
...Unknown for Another. At 56, Lopez rates as one of the most popular men in baseball, and not a little of his acclaim stems from the fact that he is the only American League manager in 16 years to take a pennant away from the Yankees. He did it with Cleveland in 1954, with the White...
...that they met and married; a year later they merged their talents and names in the Denishawn Dancers. In its 16 years the company won grand acclaim the world over. The Shawns were among the first to create ballets drawn from American themes. Their chain of Denishawn dance schools groomed such prime movers of modern dance as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman. Their proudest accomplishment, individually and together, was to help vanquish the puritanical mistrust with which most Americans had traditionally viewed the dance, to make their art part of the nation's cultural life...