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This time Henry cautiously turned for advice to the faculty senate, got back a strong statement from its committee on academic freedom backing every professor's right to be "as ungloriously wrong, and suffer the professional consequences thereof, as to be gloriously right, and receive the acclaim of his colleagues therefor." When the "privilege" of academic freedom is abused, said the committee without mentioning Oliver, "it must be recognized that the larger gain is in the brighter image of the university" presented to the scholarly world, as an institution "dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning...
...known as "the Mozart of the Champs-Elysées." In his last years, Offenbach struggled to complete his one entirely serious opera, but when he died in 1880, only the piano score for Hoffmann was finished. He was popular in his lifetime, but he accepted his acclaim with some bitterness. "I am happy to have my small place," he said acidly. "I know I'm not a nightingale, merely a little finch...
Such talk is perhaps a bit excessive. Bessmertnova has appeared in only one solo role-Giselle-and that only five times. But each time she dances she stirs up a storm of acclaim such as the staid old Bolshoi has not seen in years. Even Ulanova raves about her. Lithe, dark, and only 22, Bessmertnova seems the very ideal of ballet-the disembodied spirit choreographers dream of, the ethereal figure that explains the whole logic of the dance...
With these triumphs, the Rothschilds earned wide acclaim for shrewdness, reliability and profitability, quickly became lenders to the great. Jakob's loans helped France conquer Algeria. From Vienna, Brother Salomon raised millions for the Habsburgs, who-after some hard prompting at a highly anti-Semitic court-in 1822 rewarded the Rothschilds and all their descendants with the title of baron and their noble coat of arms. From Naples, Brother Kalmann floated huge loans for the Papal States and the King of Naples by placing them with the other Rothschilds...
...Francisco architect, Warnecke grew up in the informal redwood tradition of Bernard Maybeck, struck out on his own in 1950 after his father's firm grew too cramped. He won his first national acclaim with a series of Bay Area schools. In 1956 he struck into the international field, won a State Department commission to build the Thailand embassy. His "floating pagoda" design (provided that Congress authorizes funds) will match the mood of Bangkok's temples as it rises airily on slender white stilts...