Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Credit went with the cash. No Canadian theatrical event had ever attracted such critical attention and acclaim. Drama critics flocked to the opening night (TIME, July 27) from most of the important U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines and went away chorusing praise for British Star Alec Guinness and Actress Irene Worth, the Canadian cast, and the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, from London's Old Vic. Wrote Author Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, a guest critic for the Ottawa Citizen: "You can rate [it] with . . . the Passion Play at Oberammergau or with the yearly season of plays at Stratford...
...viscounts and barons) followed in Philip's footsteps. Philip and the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent alone kissed Her Majesty's cheek. As each peer pledged his fealty, the members of his ancient order repeated, phrase by phrase, his oath of liegemanship. When it was done, the acclaim roared out once more...
Vittorini has won them acclaim in the U.S. Rome, not Paris, is the capital of a new generation of postwar U.S. expatriates, who this time celebrate not what they have lost but what they have found...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...
Collier's editor than as the author of four books about U.S. Negroes, which have won him considerable critical acclaim as well as a Julius Rosenwald fellowship and the $2,500 George Washington Carver award. Moon, who is often mistakenly thought to be a Negro because of his writing, for ten years was an editor at Doubleday & Co.; six months ago he joined Collier's staff...