Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nostalgic tribute to black performers who toured the pre-Depression South on the T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Booking Agency) circuit. Fortunately, there is precious little vaudeville in One Mo' Time!and no imitations of greats like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sweet Mama Stringbean, who made their early fame on the circuit. The setting is New Orleans' Lyric Theater. A backstage dressing-room drama, replete with the trials and tribulations of show biz and some seething personal rivalries, constitutes the subplot picture frame for the evening...
...protagonists are students there: David Rostov, a Soviet who will later become an ambitious intelligence officer in Moscow; Yasif Hassan, a Palestinian who subsequently serves as a triple agent for the Egyptians, the Soviets and the fedayeen; and Nathaniel Dickstein, a cockney Jew who migrates to Israel and wins fame as his adopted country's most resourceful...
That night, Scalise will be inducted into the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame for his outstanding undergraduate lacrosse career...
...eyes of Arthur's older brother Hall. Hall recounts Arthur's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, Julia's fall from the ministry and subsequent exploitation by her father, Arthur's homosexual relationship with Julia's pianist brother Jimmy, and Arthur's mysterious death at the peak of his fame. The novel reads as if authored by Hall in an effort to understand his brother's life as an artist, in order to legitimize his need for art in a rapidly changing society. Though Baldwin halfheartedly attempts to detach himself from the character of Hall, it is clear Hall...
They are the most prestigious prizes in the world. Besides a hefty stipend (now $190,000) and a gold medal, they bring instant fame, flooding winners with speaking invitations, job offers, book contracts and honorary degrees. So heady is the honor that Physicist Tsung Dao Lee, who became a Nobel laureate at the precocious age of 31, wondered what he could do for the rest of his life. Indeed, as the time of the announcements approaches each fall, many contenders are so afflicted with Nobel fever they literally jump whenever their telephones ring...