Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Years of Triumph covers the early years of Frost's fame in England and the United States, up to the death of his wife in 1938. It describes without malice or apparent prejudice several incidents which indicate that Frost was not a benign simple rustic writing pure-hearted doggerel, but rather an impatient, frequently lazy, hyperbolic man. The reviewers were furious. Some treated the book as a personal insult. One almost-yellow journal reduced its reaction to a sixteen-point print blare, "A good poet-but a very...
William T. Reid '01, who played a major role in the legalization of the forward pass, will be inducted into the Football Hall of Fame October 23 at the Varsity Club. Reid played fullback for the Crimson in 1898 and 1899, and later coached...
Mailer has been exposed to the press since fame caught up with him in his early twenties on publication of The Naked and the Dead. A few years later he could write, in The Deer Park, "A newspaperman is obsessed with finding the facts in order to tell a lie, and a novelist is a gallery-slave to his imagination so he can look for truth." So he began by saying that as sorry as newspapers are they are in some cases improved over their pasts, then decided that the functions of most reports could easily be accomplished by machines...
...notion that the presidency of Harvard is the end of a career rather than the beginning. "We do not want what happened at Brandeis with Morris Abram to happen here," one Corporation member explained. Abram took over as president of Brandeis two years ago, and after gaining fame for his handling of a black student protest last year, resigned to run unsuccessfully for the Senate seat in New York...
...notion that the presidency of Harvard is the end of a career rather than the beginning. "We do not want what happened at Brandeis with Morris Abram to happen here," one Corporation member explained. Abram took over as president of Brandeis two years ago, and after gaining fame for his handling of a black student protest last year, resigned to run unsuccessfully for the Senate seat in New York...