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Chet Forte and his Columbia cohorts should quickly end all Harvard's basketball pretentions for national acclaim through its defensive leadership tonight, when the varsity invades the Blue and White's New York court...
Wyeth has won acclaim (TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest tempera, titled Chambered Nautilus,* is a portrait of his mother...
...weekly newspaper, she has completed a lyric poem and is blocking out in her mind a kindly and truthful book about the village, The Devil is in Us All! Considering the best-selling success of a recent, sensationalistic attempt by a young American marm, it would probably enjoy acclaim. When she isn't baking do-nuts or rolls for the rest of the village, she reads such writers as Dylan Thomas, Saroyan or Maugham, and is willing to take on all comers concerning their relative merits...
Along with its new attention and acclaim the U.S. was confronted last week with searching questions that reflected, perhaps, the fact that one phase of its world role was passing and another beginning. In London the Economist expressed the best-intentioned British misgivings: "The charge that does stand, more accusing than ever, is that the Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular parts of it. It has had an attitude, but no solutions-a diagnosis, but no remedies ... If the determination now reported from Washington to wrest out of the present smoldering...
...triumphant, and the Arab world would rally to his leadership; the Russians would take over in the Middle East through infiltrations, thus splitting the Commonwealth geographically and politically. All this could and would happen in a matter of weeks unless the Tory Party pulled together. His speech brought "loud acclaim." and the meeting adjourned. But nothing was yet settled...