Word: fame
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...Television Hall of Fame inducted two-time Emmy winner Lehrer in 1999. Lehrer’s public profile is largely defined by his role as moderator of 10 presidential debates...
...enter as a commercial competitor in the booming field of genetic engineering, he appealed to some time-honored precepts. Learning should be an end in itself, not a way to earn vast fortunes. Teachers should be teaching, searching, thinking, and not competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full of the commercial and the exploitative as ours, Harvard should serve as a sanctuary of something higher. And though we are not convinced these were the only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision. We don’t, however, jump...
...only permanent trace of one’s presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card. This spirit of live and let live extends through every aspect of undergraduate life. There are no big men on campus, only a host of little big men. The quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends have ever heard vie for the votes of an apathetic class to make the Union or Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football...
...discussion with Andy Warhol," he recalls, "and I said, 'As far as I'm concerned, more people watch the news than anything else. To me, news is pop art.' And Andy agreed." In the decades since, Gittoes, 56, has pushed that concept beyond the usual 15 minutes of fame...
...followed nearly identical paths from the Harvard Lampoon to Fox Studios and the upper echelons of Hollywood writer fame...