Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leap higher, farther and more daringly than anything north of Australia. More important, in some dazzling performances of Swan Lake, they gave Manhattan audiences their first look at the Soviet classical ballet linked to the lavish, lush dance style that is the source of the company's fame...
...highly appreciative world. There are other good things in the bottle, but so far only Feiffer, whose cartoons continue to appear there weekly, has risen from oblivion to the Voice and then directly to paperback publication, autograph-signing tours of college bookstores, and a considerable degree of personal fame...
...Gaullist Resistance during the war, Debré after the war became known in the French Senate for his scathing attacks on the leaders of the Fourth Republic, his nationalistic outbursts against European integration, and his attacks on France's British and U.S. allies. His other claim to fame was his key role in writing De Gaulle's constitution for the Fifth Republic...
Left-fielder Bob Anderson, of football fame, led the Cadet attack with three safeties in three at bats...
...American choral composers today, Professor Randall Thompson '20 certainly ranks among the most popular. His Alleluia, written in 1940, and The Last Words of David (1949) have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include...