Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such sideshow on Ike's trip. By the time he shepherded the traveling press corps and their gear aboard three buses outside the White House gate last week, Hagerty had laid out a set of battle orders that would have won any good general's enthusiastic acclaim...
...young cinéastes went surfboarding to success. In the past twelve months, according to the French Film Office, at least 30 young men without previous experience in film direction have gone into production with full-length films, and already half a dozen of them have achieved both critical acclaim and the franc approval of the public. Among the leaders François Truffaut, 27 (The Four Hundred Blows), Alain Resnais, 37 (Hiroshima, My Love), Claude Chabrol, 27 (Le Beau Serge, The Cousins), Edouard Molinaro, 31 (Back to the Wall...
According to the girls, dates are not a prestige factor as they are at other colleges. To them, Sarah Lawrence is a "status-less society," in that a girl cannot acquire acclaim through the usual methods of dates and grades. The only criterion for prestige is individual brilliance, whether intellectual or artistic, and this becomes the ideal to which most aspire, not for prestige but for personal satisfaction...
Khrushchev was tough, petulant, vital, bantering, implacable. The U.S. was calm, curious, confident, challenging. Khrushchev staked claim to rocket power and the inevitable acclaim of history. Millions of Americans, lining his route, countered with a crash of unapplauding silence more eloquent of unshaken resolution than batteries of rockets on the moon...
...Balcony is the second of a set of three novels by 34-year-old Author Stacton, an American who was born in Nevada and now travels widely. His first novel, Remember Me, about the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria, was published in England, where it won critical acclaim. Most readers of the current novel will eagerly await the third, to be published in the U.S. later this month. Entitled Segaki, it concerns a 14th century Japanese monk and his search for wisdom...