Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech on Richard Henry Dana. "After Dana spent his two years before the mast," said Craig, "he returned to Boston to finish his schooling. He became a lawyer or politician or something, very respected in his society and not a little well-to-do, besides keeping a share of fame from his book. But on his deathbed he said, without even bothering with emotion, that nothing in his life meant quite as much as those early years travelling around the world, that every thing after seemed a little pale--pleasantly, perhaps, but still lacking in something not easy to describe...
...every billing it was the musical that could not miss. At the top of the credit lines for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were two of the arts' most potent names: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner of My Fair Lady and Camelot fame and West Side Story Composer Leonard Bernstein. The show, about the lives and times of 13 early Presidents, was a Bicentennial natural, and the Coca-Cola Co. eagerly footed the $1.2 million cost of bringing a 45-member cast and a 30-piece orchestra together for five weeks of rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington...
Oriana Fallaci: You'd be surprised how limited the fame of any journalist, especially a foreigner, is, in America. But about success. As I said when interviewed by Esquire, "There's nothing that changes one like success. Success, if you're not stupid, is a marvelous way to grow up. And power. Of course. You lose your complexes and become more secure. Success and power. You grow up if you can use them well...
...does a Harvard history major suddenly turn his athletic career completely around, win fame and glory, and qualify for the Olympic Trials...
Since his big effort in the Collegiate contest, Meadow slacked off to a 40-minute-per-day workout but his fame has continued to surge...