Word: fame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted fame," Wright confessed in later years. "Instead, I became notorious." As the Depression of the '30s closed in, Wright went bankrupt, finally incorporated himself and turned the rebuilt Taliesin into an apprentice school for architects. When the Museum of Modern Art staged its historic 1932 show of International Style architecture, Wright was represented, but in effect considered already dead and buried...
AMERICA has had more than its share of unhappy artists. But Louis Eilshemius stands out as a prime example of genius blighted by the world's indifference. In 1941, the New York Herald Tribune headlined: EILSHEMIUS, 77, DIES IN BELLEVUE, PENNILESS, BITTER. AND FAMOUS. The fame that came too late has been growing sporadically since. In Manhattan last week the Artists' Gallery hung the biggest survey of Eilshemius' art to date...
...larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens of Rhodes scholarship" and "the kind of man you can trust to pick his own career." Stable Owner Lincoln finds his deep-thinking discovery "rather frightening." In case plans go sour, he has figured out an alternate road to fame. "If this doesn't work out," he told the well-muscled singer-scholar last week, "I can always launch you in wrestling...
...dining and living areas, opened up the house to the outdoors, incorporated whole walls of glass into his buildings. Last week the California Palace of the Legion of Honor had the best of Maybeck on view in a large photo exhibit, which Californians hope will spread Maybeck's fame as an architect, and one of the great romantics. Wrote Critic Lewis Mumford: "But for Bernard Maybeck's fine reticence, his work would have been hailed long ago as the West Coast's counterpart to Wright's prairie architecture...
...Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When he plucked nervously at the toilet paper, a cunning mechanism tripped, and a music box tinkled out Yankee Doodle Dandy. In that moment of revelation, the book that was to secure Ganesh's fame was born. He thought of the title later: Profitable Evacuation...