Word: fame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Herostrattis has a story, but no plot, at least if we conceive of plot as progress. In the Greek legend ??? burnt down the temple of Artemis at Ephesens to gain ever-lasting fame. In Levy's retelling Max, the protagonist, sick of the "crap-heap" and the guardians of the nation's institutions who have us "hopping around like jumping beans," decides to kill himself, and takes his intention to an ad agency. He offers the head of the agency. one Farson, the chance to handle his suicide in any way he sees...
...Russell's thought that had primacy and gave weight to the workings of his large and sometimes foolish heart. Skeptic, agnostic and above all rationalist, he won his first fame as a mathematician, later as a philosopher by creatively applying mathematical methods to the linguistic mysteries of meaning. His most notable work, Principia Mathematica, written with the collaboration of his fellow mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, is a bench mark of 20th century philosophy. Paradoxically, though, Russell was less a man of the 20th century than the last of the eminent, eccentric Victorian rebels...
Died. Edward ("Senator") Ford, 82, dour-visaged vaudeville comedian who wisecracked his way to fame on radio's Can You Top This show in the '40s; of cancer; in Greenport, N.Y. In 1940 Ford teamed with Comedians Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie Jr. to challenge radio audiences to a game of comic oneupmanship; at its peak the show attracted 10,000 jokes a week from a regular audience of 10 million listeners. Typical Ford rib-tickler: "Professor to student: 'Give me a definition of syntax.' Student to professor: 'My God, have they...
...Long live her fame, and long live her glory, and long may her story be told...
...more skilled practitioners of the sexual shell game was Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish writer who spent much of his adult life in Argentina, totally unknown to the world. He died at 64 in France last year, after enjoying a muffled underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended...