Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dreams, unbidden, from a talent that did not appreciate itself. Even while reciting his tales on demand to charmed royal circles all over Europe, Andersen waited hopefully for the time when his novels, not very good, and his poetry and plays, only a little better, would get the same acclaim. But that was not to be. And the time came when the last fairy story had been written. "How beautiful life is," said Andersen, dying at 70, his mind still dreaming. "It is as if I were sailing to a land far, far away, where there is no pain...
...months of feverish writing sought to capture on paper the events he had seen at first hand. The result is, by all odds, the best of the 90-or-so Kennedy books that have appeared in the two years since Dallas. It has won Schlesinger critical acclaim and considerable affluence as well. With 175,000 copies in print and a fifth printing set for January, he stands to earn well into six figures...
From the time she first set up shop as a novelist eleven years ago, Irish-born Iris Murdoch was accorded a respectful acclaim. Because she was then a philosophy don at Oxford, nobody seemed overly concerned about whether her fiction writing was good or bad; as with Dr. Johnson's famous walking dog, there was only a happy wonderment that she did it at all. Because her prose was lucid, and sometimes even poetic, it was assumed that she deliberately kept her meanings opaque, and she was credited with a sense of mysticism. Because her characters usually were unbelievably...
Perhaps it is E. Power Biggs' program choices that have helped him rise to the heights of popular acclaim that he has achieved as an organist. Then again, his may be the same charm that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir oozes when its masses of sound blanket an audience. But judging from his concert at the Busch-Reisinger Museum this week, Mr. Biggs' fame could not possibly be due to the precision of execution that normally accompanies a virtuoso performance. It is unfortunate that an otherwise sensitive performance was upset by unevenness in rhythm in many passages throughout the evening...
...great length in these pages two years ago, it seemed worthwhile this time around to request an evaluation from a person who has himself played the role of Lear. Harold R. Scott '57, an award-winning actor well known in New York and abroad, played Lear professionally to high acclaim at the age of 22--thus following the lead of Britain's famed William Devlin, who first played the role at the same age. Mr. Scott, who was a drama critic for the Summer News in 1959, has recently been playing the leading role in "A Raisin...