Word: fame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great scholarship does not necessarily imply great teaching ability. Second, subject matter and reading lists, among other factors, should always take precedence over the cache of a big name. Many superstars are just too busy to give loads of time to their courses--and considering the temptations offered by fame at Harvard, we cannot put the blame only on them. If Harvard valued teaching more--and increased the size of the faculty to increase the faculty-student ratio and to spread the administrative obligations of faculty among more professors--perhaps all professors, including the superstars, would be able to devote...
Manson is not, of course, the first to wring fame out of ghoulish theater. Pioneer shock rockers Alice Cooper and Kiss made millions daring audiences to share the humor behind their fright masks. But Manson's act is shorn of all humor. What's left is lurid spectacle that conveys little meaning beyond its shock value...
...course, some have reached their last semester and found guarantees of fame, fortune and success. They have all the answers, and the world is their oyster. Many, though, are intensely searching their souls, plagued by knowledge of dreams deferred--of an entire young life spent like so many greyhounds racing after an elusive rabbit. Then one morning they awake, like Roger did, and realize they'll never reach...
...early on in his presidency that continues even now, at the highest point of his political popularity and power. Two weeks after his re-election, when reporters pressed him on the foreign-contribution scandal, he compared his treatment by the media to that of Richard Jewell, of Olympic-bombing fame. Two months later, in a speech to the Democratic National Committee, after his Inauguration, he showed the same chutzpah (as Isaiah might have...
...appearance was part of the media blitz marking publication of his book, The Arthritis Cure (St. Martin's Press; $22.95). With 16 million Americans suffering from the crippling pain of osteoarthritis, it's not surprising that a personable young doctor promising a "cure" would get his minutes of fame. Or that his book's initial printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the shelves within days...