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Cumbersome & Slow. In his life, Louis Braille won little acclaim. He was just another blind man, and in those days few people bothered much about the blind. Only one school - the Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris-was making any notable attempt at all to teach the blind to read. But even its method (big letters embossed on paper) was hopelessly cumbersome and slow...
...Conan's innovations at Harvard have been received with popular acclaim or have turned out successfully. In 1937 he announced a plan of non-departmental, non-credit extra-curricular work in American history to "innoculate the student body with an educational virus." The plan was complete with prizes and six men hired as "Counselors in American History," but the student body took very slowly to the innoculations. The war served to kill the program...
...Theatre des Champs-Elysees-and the principals were the same as at that uproarious premiere of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913, and again there was bedlam. But this time the composer stood in his box, bathed in spotlight glare and the audience's acclaim, clasping his hands together like a victorious boxer. The tohu-bohu did not abate until Stravinsky marched onstage to buss Conductor Monteux on both cheeks. Said beaming Pierre Monteux: "There was just as much noise the last time, but of a different tonality...
...kibitzing of sidekick Donald O'Connor. Jean Hagen is Kelly's beautiful-but-not-so-bright leading lady whose squeaky voice is not O.K. for sound. Debbie Reynolds, the girl hired to do Jean's behind-the-camera talking and singing, finally wins both public acclaim and Kelly...
...chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he won acclaim last year for his fair and steady hand on the MacArthur hearings. An expert back-room organizer and a skillful floor leader, he is the best parliamentarian in the Senate. As leader of the Southern bloc, holding the balance of power, he is often called the most powerful man in the Senate...