Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Effler, gave the go-ahead, and the coronary bypass soon gained fame and popularity-and an ever higher degree of safety and dependability...
...irony of World War II was that it brought many Russians a small degree of freedom. Stalin entreated his "brothers and sisters" to unite in defending the motherland. Pravda even printed one of Akhmatova's heroic war poems. Her dormant fame was reawakened. In 1944 she received a standing ovation after reading her poetry from a Moscow stage. But two years later, with the war won, Stalin was asking. "Who organized this standing ovation?" Akhmatova was proscribed again and her son was rearrested...
...changing cold war weather. The Khrushchev thaw brought renewed official acceptance. Much of her work was republished in Russia. At 75, she traveled to Oxford for an honorary degree, to Italy for a prize and to Paris. where 53 years before Modigliani had sketched her portrait. But fame, as Akhmatova once wrote, "is a trap wherein there is neither happiness nor light." Two years later, when she was buried with full Orthodox rites, her graveside was crowded with the Soviet literary establishment...
...deeply inside his writing, and sacrificed so much of his own being to it that it is hard to separate the man from his work. His suicide is the last unwritten chapter of Recovery; the book and memory of the man together will remain as testimonies to the fame that so bedevilled...
...Love & Fame marked the publication of his first religious poems. While many were supercilious, even silly, a precious few bodied forth a new serenity. One cruel portentious line stands naked among these calmer poems: "I certainly don't think I'll last much longer...