Word: acclaimed
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...Helpful Bolivian. A share of the popular acclaim went to U.N. Commissioner Eduardo Anze Matienzo. the genial Bolivian who prepared the way for federation. Anze Matienzo arrived in Asmara 20 months ago in the wake of bloody riots between Eritrea's Moslems and its Christian Copts. He went into every corner of the land seeking to allay religious distrust. His success was shown by the peaceful nature of Eritrea's first national elections, held earlier this year, which sent 34 Copts and 34 Moslems to an assembly that ratified a constitution acceptable to both sects...
...little else. They had a building, and they were confident that their talent and enthusiasm would bring the audiences of Irving Berlin and Oscar Hammerstein back to William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw. They were right. But even though appreciative audiences filled their theatre, and although the group won national acclaim for its repertory, Brattle never made any money. The company sliced its salaries to subsistence and some of the members dipped into their pockets to subsidize the others; still, during the four years Brattle lost...
Cumbersome & Slow. In his life, Louis Braille won little acclaim. He was just another blind man, and in those days few people bothered much about the blind. Only one school - the Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris-was making any notable attempt at all to teach the blind to read. But even its method (big letters embossed on paper) was hopelessly cumbersome and slow...
...Conan's innovations at Harvard have been received with popular acclaim or have turned out successfully. In 1937 he announced a plan of non-departmental, non-credit extra-curricular work in American history to "innoculate the student body with an educational virus." The plan was complete with prizes and six men hired as "Counselors in American History," but the student body took very slowly to the innoculations. The war served to kill the program...
...Theatre des Champs-Elysees-and the principals were the same as at that uproarious premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913, and again there was bedlam. But this time the composer stood in his box, bathed in spotlight glare and the audience's acclaim, clasping his hands together like a victorious boxer. The tohu-bohu did not abate until Stravinsky marched onstage to buss Conductor Monteux on both cheeks. Said beaming Pierre Monteux: "There was just as much noise the last time, but of a different tonality...