Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...continue holding down the premiership, new Premier Nagy was forced to yield to the pressures of the new parties, to promise free elections, to acclaim neutrality, and, above all, to insist that the Russian troops be withdrawn, not only from Budapest, but from Hungary. Thus he called in Soviet Ambassador Yuri Andropov, renounced Hungary's membership in the Warsaw Pact, and put his case to the United Nations. His first Cabinet was made up of Communists, with four exceptions. At week's end there were only three Communists, including himself, in the government; the Cabinet portfolios were distributed...
Once upon a time a prima donna was opera's indispensable lady, an unearthly creature who fed on acclaim, dressed in kudos and walked a path strewn with money, jewels and lovers. For her the real world was only an extension of the unlikely world of opera, a world of passionate hate, tempestuous love and outrageous gesture. The prima donna was larger than life, and a law only to her own towering talent. One composer did not dream of objecting when Maria Malibran (1808-36) regally replaced one whole act he had written with music by another composer. Adelina...
Onstage, Callas' thirst for personal acclaim is insatiable. She grabs solo curtain calls whenever she can, even after another singer's big scene. Backstage in Rome. Basso Boris Christoff once seized her with one big paw, forced her to stand still. "Now. Maria," he decreed, "either we all go out there together, or nobody goes out." Tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano says: "I'm never going to sing opera with her again, and that's final." Said a close acquaintance: "The day will come when Maria will have to sing by herself...