Word: acclaimed
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Rhee's dictatorial tactics are misleading. After a personal interview, a "Reporter" magazine writer asserts, "By both public acclaim and by moral conviction, he is a champion of democracy . . . I could not help wondering whether he might . . . be serving out his last year as a front for a clique of army and police officers . . . he showed many signs of his advanced years. Now, when his dream for a united Korea may be shattered by peace negotiations or by what he would consider an untimely end to the war with he Communists, he is determined to lay down...
General Fremont's edict of military emancipation elicited almost universal acclaim throughout the North. But it alarmed the President [and] constituted a serious blow to his efforts to retain Maryland, Kentucky and other border states in the Union ... He issued an order altering Fremont's proclamation so that it should conform to and not "transcend" the act of Congress ... A storm of indignation broke out throughout the North . . . Outraged Abolitionists clamored for the impeachment of Lincoln; and Fremont supporters proposed him as Lincoln's successor...
Died. John-Alden Carpenter, 75, Chicago socialite, businessman and famed U.S. composer, a pioneer in the use of American jazz rhythms in concert works; after a long illness; in Chicago. Carpenter began winning acclaim around World War I for his polite, elegant songs, impressionistic orchestra pieces (Adventures in a Perambulator). Later he experimented widely, became the rage of the '20s with his jazz themes (the ballets Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers), was also noted for his choral works, chamber music and symphonies. Carpenter once said of his music: "At any rate, it is peaceful music, and in these days perhaps that...
...center of the dispute was 33-year-old President Paul A. Wagner, who had swept into office only two years ago to the loud acclaim of trustees, faculty and students alike. What happened to Rollins, and to President Wagner, was a classic and tragic example of the dilemma to which well-intentioned and fair-minded men on both sides of an argument can come...
...Louis Globe-Democrat, Kappesser began reading a past-tense-and less than favorable-account of his "ambitious direction" of Mahler's Second Symphony. "To say that Mr. Kappesser triumphed over [the music's] handicaps," read Conductor Kappesser, "would scarcely be accurate. He did his best. The same acclaim is due his singers and his orchestra." The audience laughed at a line about "an appreciative audience." Scornfully Kappesser read off the reviewer's initials: "H.R.B...