Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than parents today deserve. The strip-film projector is no substitute for mother love, the basketball game for rabbit-hunting with Dad. The sooner parents return to the fundamental philosophy of home as the center of family life, the 'better off the kids will be ... Some people acclaim TV as the savior of the family at home. This still avoids the main issue: love and affection for one another...
...Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson cocked an ear for popular acclaim, met with a cathedral hush, and came to a politician's most distressing decision: not to stand for reelection. Last week Hendrickson, an earnest but ineffectual performer in Washington, withdrew from the G.O.P. primary. With Hendrickson scratched, the odds-on Republican favorite becomes former Representative Clifford Case, who would probably have won the primary even if Hendrickson had stayed in (TIME, March 15). Probable Democratic nominee: Pennington's Representative Charles Howell, longtime advocate of a temple of fine arts in Washington...
...born Karl Zerbe, who dislikes oils, has painted with egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical acclaim. But in 1949, things began to go wrong. Zerbe started suffering from asthma, found that he was allergic to beeswax...
...English poets, turned leading intellectual of Manhattan's Bowery; of a heart attack; after he was found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at Hunter College. In 1929, after winning critics' acclaim with a two-volume biography of Shelley, Professor Peck saw his academic career blow up in a tabloid scandal. Suing for separation, his wife accused him of leading an "unbelievably immoral life," named a Hunter student among five corespondents. Ousted from the faculty, the once elegant "Love Prof" drifted down...
...brow, Sir Winston was moved almost to tears at the reunion's climax when the Harrow boys chorused a familiar version of the school song in his honor: "Nor less we praise in darker days/ The leader of our nation,/ And Churchill's name shall win acclaim/ From each new generation...