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Word: acclaimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Gallup poll reported that the U.S. people were agreed (by a 5-to-1 majority) that it was a "good thing" rather than a "bad thing" to have this information available. But how good was the information? And was its popular acclaim a healthy sign? Almost unheard amid the general hubbub, a few expert faultfinders began to ask these questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: How to Stop Gin Rummy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Three veteran actors and directors joined HDC ranks last night to help resuscitate the Club's spring production, Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors." The play collapsed after an eight-day run in New York despite loud acclaim from critics Wolcott Gibb an Brooks Atkinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Play Makes Bow At 'Cliffe Today; Pros Assist HDC | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...Treasure nearly a month before your praising review was published, and I . . . could see nothing in it that would prompt such a raving acclaim for Bogart, Huston and Huston, the director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Purcell's Steps. In an age when even opera's best friends are calling it decadent, bright young Benjamin Britten's admirers acclaim him as the wonder boy who will restore the glitter to opera's tarnished tiara. In England, which has never produced a composer to match its poets and playwrights, critics call him the likeliest English opera discovery since Henry Purcell composed Dido and Aeneas for a girls' boarding school 250 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...spite of loud acclaim from dramatic critics Walcott Gibbs of the New Yorker and Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times, "The Survivors" dropped out of the white lights after an eight week run on Broadway last month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Picks Irwin Shaw's 'Survivors' For Anniversary Spring Production | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

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