Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kerouac only 11 years after his alcoholic death, we too often remember the man and his fabulous stories, rather than his genius. Jack Kerouac was that kind of writer. His writing was so full of speed, his characters so powerful, his ideas so outrageous for the times that his fame is mostly owed to the characters and events he portrayed, not to the way he portrayed them...
...biography is illuminating because it pieces together the puzzling parts of a personality and a mind which has become cliched by fame. He was a great storyteller, they said. He was wonderful and crazy, they said. He wrote great autobiographies and fathered the hippie generation, they said. Clearly, Kerouac started something in 1957 when On the Road was published. But the changes in American mores and literature that Kerouac inspired are due to his literary and human genius, not to wild and crazy stories. Holmes said it best: "Most books that come out are contained. That is, people...
DIED. Willy Messerschmitt, 80, German industrialist and aircraft designer whose single-engine fighter plane dominated Luftwaffe squadrons during World War II; after surgery; in Munich. Awarded a glider pilot's license at the age of 15, Messerschmitt first gained fame building light sports planes. The young, soft-spoken engineer specialized in increasing aircraft speed and soon received military assignments. During the war, German factories filled European and African skies with 40,000 of his ME-109 fighters and ME-110 twin-engine bombers, aircraft so effective that Allied pilots who displayed bad nerves were said to have "the Messerschmitt...
...three days at the end of August, Boston's convention hotel was the home of the National Governor's Association Convention, an event which starred such luminaries as Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Gov. William G. Milliken of Michigan, Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire and Seabrook fame, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), nuclear reactors, health insurance, anonymous men and women dressed to kill, and above all, the star of stars--Proposition...
This year, the 200th anniversary of Piranesi's death, his fame as one of the master etchers of architecture has been enhanced with major exhibitions in London, Venice and the U.S. The most notable show opens this week in the spectacular new East Building of Washington's National Gallery. The largest collection of Piranesi's relatively rare drawings went on display last week at Manhattan's Morgan Library. The Morgan is also publishing a catalogue that will illustrate its entire Piranesi holdings...