Word: acclaimed
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...heart attack; in New York City. Brodsky's 1964 Soviet trial for "parasitism," prompted by the underground distribution of his works, made him a cause celebre in the West and led to his expulsion in 1972. His intense verses, filled with images of loss and wandering, won him wide acclaim and America's highest honor for poetry...
Wilson received national attention and acclaim for his groundbreaking work in The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy, named as one of the 16 best books published in 1987, by The New York Times Book Review, according to the press release...
Wilson received national attention and acclaim for his groundbreaking work in The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy, named as one of the 16 best books published in 1987, by The New York Times Book Review, according to the press release...
...DADDY!" WITH THAT PROnouncement, applause filled the Stadium Club overlooking one end zone of Texas Stadium. An hour after his big-D Dallas Cowboys had little-d demolished the Green Bay Packers 38-27 in the N.F.C. championship game, owner Jerry Jones walked into the room to the acclaim he so richly deserved, or paid for, depending on your point of view. "You did it, Big Daddy!" said a cowboy-booted courtier. Actually, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin and the other boys did it, but with the team about to win a third Super Bowl in four years...
Kane's beguiling arrogance and neediness come straight from its creator. As Callow meticulously shows, George Orson Welles knew acclaim and misuse from early childhood. Declared a genius at three, staging Shakespeare in a toy playhouse at five, walking on water in his wading pool--the legend goes something like that--he was adrift in a strained family. His opera-loving mother died when he was nine, his suavely alcoholic father three years later. Welles would memorialize his mother in Kane and find father-sponsors in his prep-school principal, Broadway's John Houseman, RKO's George Schaefer. He would...