Word: acclaimed
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...this potential doorstop winning such acclaim? Are readers in 1974 really that willing to plow through 25 pages of hearsay evidence on Macaulay's eloquence as a parliamentary orator from 1832 to 1834? Or, for that matter, the more than 50 pages that Clive uses to summarize Macaulay's revision of the Indian penal code? And then, after half a thousand pages, Macaulay's masterpiece plus 20 years of his life still lie ahead-for this is only the first volume from an academic biographer who knows everything and tells all, not ungracefully but sometimes twice...
...dignitaries. He was David Ben-Gurion, Israel's longtime leader, first Prime Minister and, in a sense, its George Washington. Out of the Prime Minister's office for ten years and in complete retirement for three, Ben-Gurion, in that appearance, gave Israelis a fitting chance to acclaim his role in the birth, growth and maturity of their country...
When Fitzgerald's Odyssey won immediate acclaim as the finest English translation of Homer's epic, his reputation was already established by two volumes of original and translated poetry, and the definitive translation, in collaboration with Didley Fitts, of several Greek tragedies, including Sophocles' Oedipal trilogy and Euripides' Alcestis. As William Arrowsmith pointed out in his review of Fitzgerald's Odyssey in The Nation, Fitzgerald avoids a mere word-by-word rendering of the original poem. Rather, he totally recasts the Greek into English,...rethinking and reshaping the Greek by turning the thrust and power beneath the words rather than...
McManama has received wide acclaim in his new home along the Monongahela. Schiffhauer said that McManama has "become the talk or the town among Pittsburgh hockey fans...
While the Crimson defense vs. the Cornell offense will be the main subject of interest today, the Harvard attack and the Cornell defense will be engaging in a heady struggle of their own. While neither of these units has amassed the renown o. acclaim that have gone to the Crimson D and the Cornell O, both have accomplished big things this year...