Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation has edged past the cultish toward the catapult of runaway acclaim...
...sometimes Machiavellian atmosphere of official Washington, Powell is the beneficiary of a rare commodity: universal acclaim. "Loyal almost to a fault," says former Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer. "He's just super to have around," gushes another Defense Department aide. "Powell has become quite well known to the President and the chief of staff," says a White House aide. "They like...
...found himself in Ann Arbor, a poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan assigned, as he later whimsically wrote, "to wear out/ the patience of the ingenuous local youth." Since then he has lived steadily in the U.S. (he became a citizen in 1977), teaching, writing and gathering acclaim, including a $208,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation...
Daniel Vilmure '87, a Tampa resident who transferred to Harvard after two years at Loyola University in New Orleans, has already received resounding critical acclaim for his book, "Life in the Land of the Living...
...novel has received critical acclaim for its intriguing plot, which traces two teenaged brothers from a broken home who steal food from a restaurant, escape a bloody brawl and witness a murder in one incredible night...