Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been 23 years since Poet Andre Breton rattled the saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...
World wide acclaim of the University's Anthropology Department has gathered momentum in the past few years until today students of Anthropology and its allied subjects convenes at Harvard from many nations to take advantage of "the best Anthropological library in the world," a scope of study which no other university can touch, and the instruction of an excellent, if small, staff...
...husband J. Hartley Manners' hit comedy Peg o' My Heart; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After Manners' death in 1928, she went on what she herself called "the longest wake in history," then, after 13 years of comparative obscurity and bit parts, won acclaim in last year's The Glass Menagerie, for the best performance of 1945. "That just goes to show," said she, "that the postman can ring twice...
Died. May Sinclair, 93, British author (The Divine Fire, Mary Olivier) and feminist, one of the first and most penetrating novelists of the early "stream of consciousness" school, who a generation ago received wide acclaim, in both the U.S. and Britain; after long illness; in Aylesbury, England...
...group also has rights to Robert Briffault's translation of existentialist Jean Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos." The three-character play was put on in London last season under the title "The Vicious Circle" and met with wide acclaim...