Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already widely produced in France, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium, Audiberti's plays are part allegory, part farce, simple confrontations of good and evil-and all of them share a torrential richness of language and sensuality of tone that have won wide critical acclaim. Says Critic Jean de Beer: "In a few years, Audiberti works will be in even the most elementary textbooks for the study of the French language." Unmoved by either condemnation or praise, the stocky, balding Audiberti roams about his country retreat in flabby corduroys and an old suede jacket, working on a new play...
...thirties a half century of construction in reinforced concrete had dissipated public resistance to the new forms. Nervi's stadium with its famous external, spiral staircases reached an audience increasingly enthusiastic about the new substance and won him immediate acclaim...
...next man in the firing line, has been barred from space--his heart palpitates. And then there's Linda Glenn, 16, nation's sweetheart. This kid managed to delay her high school's election for class president until the day after Daddy's flight. Guess who got the unanimous acclaim of the senior class...
During his 83 years of life. Painter John Marin knew both popular and critical acclaim, but there were times when he felt a touch of bitterness. While the public and critics applauded his fluid watercolors, his oils were so assiduously ignored that Marin used to refer to his ever-increasing stock of unsold canvases as his "Dark Room Collection." Since his death in 1953. admirers have been trying to focus more light on the dark room. Their efforts came to a climax last week with the opening of a major Marin retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington...
...Until the Middle Ages, saints were created by popular acclaim and decrees of local bishops, which Rome usually accepted as evidence of sanctity. Even now the Pope can bypass the Congregation of Rites, declare a saint on his own authority...