Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shakespearian play was originally produced over a year ago--in February, 1956--in the Eliot House dining hall for a week's run. At that time it met with both critical and popular acclaim...
...Forms of the Modern Novel" played to capacity crowds in 1956, and there is every indication that it will draw as well next fall, after a year's hiatus. "American Intellectual History" was also omitted this year, enabling Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to devote himself to writing and politicking. The acclaim for his book, The Crisis of the Old Order, will probably increase the demand for his course...
...palace, the young King leaped atop an armored car and shouted: "If you do not want me as your King, I will go!" With a tremendous shout, the Bedouins ripped off their headdresses and threw them on the ground-a spontaneous Arab gesture of loyalty and acclaim...
...year was 1936, and Jimmy Hines was riding piggyback on political success. As Tammany Hall's leader of the slum-bound Eleventh Assembly District on the city's uptown west side, charged with guarding and delivering the district's Democratic vote, Hines had won the acclaim of his followers by employing a basic technique: disbursing favors. "In politics," he explained, "the thing to do is build yourself an army...
...clipped by family responsibilities, and who determined to live out his own lost life in the person of his son (Anthony Perkins). In psychological effect, the father murdered the son, and reanimated the boy's body with his own soul, in particular with his own pathological appetite for acclaim...