Word: fame
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...Middle Ages, when veneration of the Virgin Mary almost put her on the level of a goddess, religious orders had produced powerful abbesses who held their own in intellectual exchanges with men, as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pointedly witnesses. Indeed, St. Catherine of Siena earned her major fame by talking the Avignon pope into moving the papacy back to Rome. Partially in recognition of this, Pope Paul VI recently named her, along with the 16th century mystic, St. Teresa of Avila, "Doctor of the Church" -a title hitherto bestowed only upon...
...jobs is as a trumpeter playing "Row, Row Your Boat" while swimming in front of the swan boats in the Public Garden in Boston ("Boston, which . . . is famous for its baked beans, its codfish, its tea parties, its Cabots, its Lowells, its Saltonstalls, and its Swan Boats.") He earns fame in Boston, and gets a ten-week engagement at a night club in Philadelphia. By this time, he is a great musician, giving Sunday afternoon classical concerts at the Philadelphia Zoo, where he lives...
...does, better than anyone else around, was borne out by the message Baltimore fans inscribed on third base last week: "Brooks plays here." As a more lasting memento, Robinson was asked to turn in his glove so that it could be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Shrugged Brooks: "I guess I'll just have to break in a new glove in spring training...
Twenty outstanding athletes of the past have been elected to the Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame...
Induction of the 20 new members will be made at the fourth annual Varsity Club Hall of Fame dinner on Friday, Oct. 23, at the Harvard Club of Boston. Another highlight of the program will be the formal induction of William T. Reid '01, into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame...