Word: ascent
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...sunny Saturday against Columbia, however, Harvard made the first step in a dramatic ascent--a climb which would lead to two school records, an Ivy League championship and a thrilling NCAA tournament postseason...
BOOKS . . . RAGE FOR FAME: THE ASCENT OF CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: She may be only one of history?s footnotes now, but in her heyday Clare Boothe Luce was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, the most talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself...
DIED. JOLIE GABOR, 97, Hollywood matriarch; in Rancho Mirage, California. Known as Mama Jolie, she brought her exotic, accented daughters Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda to the U.S. from Hungary in the 1930s and presided over their ascent to Hollywood celebrity...
Washington is full of people who know how to scramble up the ladder of power. But George Tenet, President Clinton's latest nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has set new records for both speed and elegance of ascent. Last week Republican Senators were all but telling Tenet he would be confirmed even before Clinton had nominated...
However, Shakespeare's ascent into "high culture" occurred relatively early. As soon as Charles II assumed the throne and the Restoration period began, managers traded the large open-air theater for a smaller indoor theaters that catered exclusively to aristocrats who could afford high-priced tickets. And some time after that, the study of Shakespeare entered Literature and Arts...