Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although fame came to him as a novelist, John Cheever has been writing and publishing short stories for nearly 50 of his 66 years. Knowing this is one thing; finding and reading the stories has been something else again. Over the decades, magazines carrying Cheever's stories fluttered past, destined for the attic or remote stacks in public libraries. At intervals, hardbound collections of some of Cheever's short fiction appeared, sold tastefully and then went out of print. A few pieces survived the drift toward transiency to which most stories are prone: The Enormous Radio became...
Holland's father Jerome "Bud" Holland starred for Cornell in 1937 and 1938. One of the first blacks to play in the Ivy League, Bud Holland was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965 and is now the U.S. ambassador to Sweden...
Singer originally gained fame as a writer in Poland, his native country, before coming to New York to join his brother, also a writer, in 1935. His recent works include a serialized autobiographical novel called "Between Faith and Doubt," which is published in Forwards, a Jewish daily paper in New York...
Without any consumer products that bear his name, Charles Engelhard has never attracted much publicity or fame in the U.S. In black Africa, however, the man whose money built the Charles Engelhard Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School was notorious. In less than 20 years, Engelhard built an inherited $20 million dollars into a global empire worth more than a quarter billion dollars at the time of his death...
...example from Pollock's "myth and totem" period which preceded his "drip" style and coincided with his experiences in Jungian analysis. This work which incorporates primitivesque figures and symbols reminds us that Pollock did not spend his entire artistic career dripping paint on canvas on his way to fame, fortune and artistic fulfillment. But even if "Figure" provides a good academic lesson, any show of abstract expressionist work is incomplete, as this one proves, without a mature Pollock to epitomize the nature and aims of the period--an expression of the unconscious through the emotional versus formalist use of color...