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...order, the State University of New York College at New Paltz handed Feltsman a teaching post at $80,000 a year, the powerful Columbia Artists agency lined up more than 50 engagements, and there was a concert at the White House. Almost as quickly as he had fallen into disfavor, Feltsman, 35, soared to international celebrity...
Solow is a leading advocate of government intervention to correct the natural imbalances of the marketplace, a strategy that has fallen into disfavor under this Administration. He won his prize for a pioneering 1956 study demonstrating that the rate of technological progress does more to determine an industrialized country's growth than the size of its labor force or its investments in new factories or equipment. Solow's "theoretical model had an enormous impact on economic analysis," said the academy's statement. In the years since then, governments around the world have taken his lesson to heart. The revolution...
With letter writing a forgotten art, diaries passe and taping in disfavor, future historians may literally be at a loss for words...
...Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even in his lifetime, Wolfe was cruelly parodied, and after his death from tuberculosis in 1938 at the age of 38, he fell into disfavor, a symbol of self-indulgence and creative excess...
...jury, must find not only that the required readings are a burden on the plaintiffs' freedom of religion but also that there is no overriding governmental interest to justify using the books. In a 1968 case, Epperson vs. Arkansas, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that it would look with disfavor on attempts by the state to cater to one particular religion. "There is and can be no doubt," the Justices said, "that the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma...