Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost comical for me to think of Bush's"Harvard conspiracy." The ivy may be foreboding,but there is certainly nothing grandiose aboutdorms with cockroaches and poor plumbing. Fame andpower don't really fit into the Harvardexperience. It's more subtle than that, morepersonal. "It's just a place," my Harvardinterviewer told me, groping for the best languageto debunk the myth. "There is no way to say thatHarvard is the best, there's no reason to saythat. it's just a great place. You'll see what Imean...
Guercino worked in an age when, although the mechanisms of fame were becoming more centralized, it was still possible to sustain a life's work on a provincial reputation. He lived in Emilia most of his life. But Rome was the great magnet, and he almost made it to the Roman big time when his patron, the Bolognese Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, became Pope in 1621 and summoned Guercino to the Vatican. There he painted one enormous canvas, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of Saint Petronilla, for an altar in Saint Peter's, but the Pope died...
...Granary Burying Ground, final resting place of not only Samuel Adams and John Hancock but also of your childhood friend, Mother Goose; Old South Meeting House, where the idea for the Boston Tea Party was first conceived; Paul Revere's House; and the Old North Church, of Longfellow fame...
Sammy's Patio provides food as well as a shotat fifteen minutes of karaoke fame. The walls ofits casual dining room are graced with framedpictures of Hulk Hogan an another one of Madonnalicking a lollipop...
Although he rarely goes to Liverpool today, McCartney is lead patron of a fund-raising effort to turn his old school, Liverpool Institute, into a Fame- type training ground for the musically talented. When the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic asked him to help mark its 150th anniversary, he ventured into classical music and composed a 90-minute choral epic called Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. It was a brave try for a man who doesn't read or write music. But it turned out to be strangely flat, a criticism that McCartney shrugs off. He was more worried that rock friends...