Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Erhard, a Protestant, will upset West Germany's Konfessionsarithmetik, the juggling of top jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics, the job in which he himself won national acclaim as Wirtschaftswunderonkel (Uncle Boom), Erhard wants his longtime No. 2 man, able Ludger Westrick, despite demands from the party that the coveted post should go to a politician rather than a civil servant...
Lebrun has called California his home since 1936, but has taught at Yale and the Art Students' League of New York, as well as UCLA. He has given major exhibits in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Toronto. He has won greatest acclaim for a series of paintings on "The Crucifixion...
Alike in an abhorrence of war and the inhumanities perpetrated on man by men, two plays, one German and one English, have recently gained acclaim in England. The Rabbit Race, by Martin Walser, and Oh What A Lovely War, produced by the London Theatre Workshop under the direction of Joan Littlewood, offer a contrast in the methods by which members of the cold war generation have tried to excite the conscience of their audience. Utilizing more or less conventional techniques, Walser presents an increasingly somber psychological drama; while Miss Littlewood employs several innovations in a satirical revue which bears...
...foreign admirers-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Minoru Yamasaki-boosted him until he had more buyers in the U.S. than in Japan. When he finally caught on in his native land, he became the rage so rapidly that he had to hide from acclaim. When Yamasaki asked how to reach him, Nagare replied, "You can't. I move from farmhouse to farmhouse out in the country to run away from Japanese architects who want me to do sculpture for their buildings...
...George. Like most of his earlier volumes, it records the first-person impressions of a man who not only lived through more than half a century of British history but helped to make it. And the Beaver has by no means reached the last chapter. Gratified by the critical acclaim accorded his latest work, he has already set industriously to work on two more. "Making a good book, that's my passion now," he says. "I dictate day and night...