Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short story writer did not compose those lines specifically for his headstone, as others have somewhat snidely suggested, but O'Hara would have accepted them as a valid summation of his work. Throughout his 40 odd years on the American literary scene, O'Hara lobbied openly for the critical acclaim he felt was due him, and watched in frustration as he was passed over, time and time again, for Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Wolfe and Steinbeck...
...dance act in barroom doorways and in prizefight rings between bouts in Woonsocket and Lincoln, R.I. In 1919 he made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster. After his prizewinning production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life in 1939, Dowling went on to his greatest triumph. In 1945, he turned down a surefire commercial play to take a chance with an unknown playwright...
...time Mstislav Rostropovich made his first American tour in 1956, he had already won international acclaim and the status of a superstar. One young professional cellist, upon hearing that the Russian had obtained a two-year emigration visa in 1974, left his wife and cello behind in the States, hopped a plane to England, and for the next few months spent days seeking out his demigod and nights sleeping on park benches and in public toilets. Today, wherever Rostropovich plays, tickets sell out within hours. Only one week after he announced his decision to defect, the National Symphony chose Rostropovich...
Died. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...
...Neves, 38, the moderates may have a figure who can contribute muscle to their cause. Some critics say that Neves is "all action and no brains." He gained acclaim during the African colonial wars as a tough and brutal soldier who liked to jump out of helicopters to fight alongside his men in the bush. His political views are something of a mystery. "Some are saying that he just likes to drink beer and chase girls," said one official last week. "But he will have to be considered on many key decisions from now on." In the near future those...