Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eternity." Albert Einstein's ennui at a function of the National Academy of Sciences was hardly unusual. Though the prestigious organization likes to consider itself the supreme court of American science, it has all too often resembled other self-perpetuating honor societies, like baseball's Hall of Fame or Hollywood's Oscar judges...
...their own childhood animals around them. "But my Pooh is different, you say; he is the Pooh," writes Milne in reply. "No, this only makes him different to you, not different to me. My toys were and are to me no more than yours were and are to you ... Fame has nothing to do with love...
...that she is rich and free, "the girl of the '70s," Margaux is moving from pop fame to superstardom. Her life seems to stretch ahead of her like a field of virgin snow. Margaux likes that terrain. Says she: "I love to ski in powder. Then I can look back and see my tracks alone-nobody else...
...international flavoring that in recent years had brought fame and fortune to the Harvard soccer team was not to be found this year. New head coach George Ford thus instituted a program of intense pre-season training, strong emphasis on defense and an exciting last break offense...
There is nothing misplaced about that confidence; Essendine, though near farcical in his heterosexuality, is nevertheless Playwright Coward's most detailed self-caricature. The people who dance attendance on him are all parodistically based on people who surrounded Coward when he was at the height of his fame in prewar London. First produced there in 1942, and now revived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Present Laughter lacks the geometrically perfect craftsmanship of Private Lives and has too little narrative drive to be ranked among the elegant best of Coward's works...