Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buoyed by such acclaim, back in Rome a tired John Paul and his harried entourage barely had enough time to unpack, greet the visiting President Reagan, sketch plans, repack and take off Friday for Argentina. That journey of 7,000 miles carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92% Catholic, compared with Britain's 13%. But while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week...
...memory of when heavyweights could hit and boxing matches could end abruptly. Holmes has the more refined ability, the broader experience, the odds going in and the championship; Cooney has the "big bat." Holmes has had 39 professional fights and has won 39, to pitifully small acclaim. The most damning thing that can be said of him is that he took on and defeated all of the "best" of his time: 29 knockouts, ten of eleven in defense of the World Boxing Council title he has held for four years. This is a record that might be associated with...
...sweeping solution-and a worldwide government of unspecified political complexion to carry it out-is the immodest proposal of the antinuclear movement's rallying point, Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth. The book first appeared as three articles in The New Yorker and met wide acclaim among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist James Reston...
...opera, the most enthusiastic acclaim goes to the stars-prima donnas and leading men who troop out from behind the curtain to bask in the bravos. By the time the conductor finally gets his turn, many patrons have already rushed up the aisles to grab a taxi. Last week in Los Angeles, though, the audience reserved its loudest cheers for the maestro: Carlo Maria Giulini, 67, returning to the operatic stage after an absence of 14 years...
...count the ways. The number one cause has to be physical conditioning or more precisly, the lack thereof. That idea of the mind being willing, but the body claiming otherwise didn't gain acclaim for nothing...