Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the 50 broken bones he had already suffered as a motorcycle stunt man, Evel Knievel was back last week, hurtling his way to fame, fortune and another hospital bed. Knievel came to London's Wembley Stadium to attempt a leap over 13 single-decker buses. Twelve might have been better. The spectacular 100-m.p.h. jump, which began with Evel atop the bike, ended 140 feet later with the bike on top of Evel. "I will never jump again," he announced to a crowd of 60,000 after aides had helped him struggle to a microphone. Following a night...
Died. Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove, 75, fireballing Hall-of-Fame pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox from 1925-41; of an apparent heart attack; in Norwalk, Ohio. With his searing fastball, Grove regularly humiliated the most feared batters of his day, including Babe Ruth, whom he held to just nine home runs in ten seasons. Grove's two-season peak of 59 wins and only nine losses in 1930-31 remains unequaled, and so, for that matter, does his sizzling temper. Lefty often loudly chewed out teammates as "hitless wonders" after close losses, or "butterfingered s.o.b.s...
Just as he claims his fame is the result of fortuitous circumstances, Woodside explains that he arrived at Vietnamese studies accidentally, "through the back door." He came to Harvard for graduate studies in Asian history in 1960 with only one semester of a Chinese history course behind him from his undergraduate days at the University of Toronto. There, he majored in "conventional Western history," and planned to go to law school until he happened to briefly sample Asian history. Before that course, Woodside had had no contact with Asian culture--he couldn't speak the languages, and he knew little...
...careers in the West, especially in America where the chances to make films were best (Forman, Passer, Kadar and Weiss now live in New York). All found themselves caught in the following dilemma: to continue the kind of work they used to do in Czechoslovakia that won them international fame or to adopt the style of filmmaking of their adopted country...
Today, that reason for Hicks' fame has utterly vanished. The only people who read his sermons are art historians searching for iconographic clues to his paintings. One example: "Finally, my friends, farewell! May the melancholy be encouraged and the sanguine quieted; may the phlegmatic be tendered and the choleric humbled; may self be denied and the cross of Christ worn as a daily garment; may His peaceable kingdom forever be established in the rational, immortal soul." To Hicks' own mind, the clues were all meant quite literally. In a sermon at Goose Creek Meeting in Virginia, he explained...