Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, reporters were straining his Southern civility. The praise of a few perceptive U.S. critics had stirred interest in Europe, and in 1950 Faulkner received the Nobel Prize. By last week, when William Faulkner died of a heart attack at 64, presidents and professors alike lifted their voices to acclaim his life and mourn his death...
Welles was basking in the afterglow and acclaim that attended the completion of the Welles-directed, Welles-scripted version of Kafka's The Trial, the story of a man victimized by the impersonal hostility of a bureaucratic world he never made. Viewers of the early rushes, including Directors Anatole Litvak and Jules Dassin, say they witnessed the birth of a classic. Twenty-one years after his Citizen Kane won him the title of boy genius and doomed him to a lifetime of trying to hold on to it, Orson Welles seemed to be making a comeback...
...Philip Roth who faces the ordeal. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, published three years ago when he was 27, won him a National Book Award and justified acclaim as the best American short storyist to appear since Salinger. It was a sour, funny look at Jewish life in the U.S., and the only doubt critics had was whether an author capable of such superb genre-painting would ever trouble himself to attempt the bigger (and presumably more important) picture...
...half years of her tenure proving that a president who doesn't have to worry about pleasing a faculty or raising funds can shape the destiny of a college very much as she chooses. Her influence has permeated the undergraduate College and her ideas won national acclaim. Radcliffe in 1962 has become Mrs. Bunting's college...
...doctor to the world." Born across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, graduated from its school of medicine in 1933, Dr. Candau went to work in his home state's health department. After a year at Johns Hopkins, where he polished his correct English, Dr. Candau won acclaim in a Rockefeller health project in Brazil. From that, it was but a step to WHO in 1950, running its office for organizing health services, and in 1953 to the director generalship...