Word: fame
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...gained national fame for the airplane incident and its resulting legal battle, made a name for himself at Harvard with a catastrophic bid for the presidency of the Undergraduate Council (UC), and performed in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT), the On Thin Ice improvisational troupe (OTI), and an event called “The B.J. Show...
...article about how the will to succeed is affected by genes, gender, privilege and persistence sparked a lively debate among readers who appreciated the broad diversity of the people we profiled and readers who rejected wealth and fame as the most important indicators of a fulfilled life...
...Congratulations on your excellent article on the roots and manifestations of ambition in our society. I was bothered, though, by the reverence for material achievement as the measure of a life well lived. What about the pursuit of success in ways that do not result in money or fame? It is wrong to glorify the achievements of those who have shoved their way to the top for the sole purpose of attaining personal riches and renown. Caitlin Maloney Glencoe, Illinois...
...claims to fame is his ability to minimize conflict,” Schlesinger said of Bok, “As Harvard president, he was a peacemaker and a crisis-solver. He doesn’t like to rock the boat...
...French. That means a preoccupation with theory, and he duly invokes Althusser, Aristotle, Habermas, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Lacan, Montesquieu, Nietzsche, Rousseau and a pantheon of other high domes in his attempt to understand America. Sometimes he tries too hard. A visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, prompts a thesis about that sport as the country's true religion. Americans themselves probably see it as just another drug-riddled branch of the entertainment business. In addition, Lévy's European-ness draws him, like generations of other Old World observers, to all that is grotesque...