Word: fame
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...Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, a memoir by a luckless sea captain who was shipwrecked on the Saharan coast of Africa, where unspeakably horrible things happened to him. Dean King, the author of a biography of Patrick O'Brian (of Master and Commander fame), stumbled on a copy of Riley's memoir and decided to produce a thoroughly researched, authoritative account of Riley's disaster...
...creativity with humility and grace. You have to live your life from the inside-out and not the outside-in.” He went on to name Oprah and Will Smith as celebrities who have managed to keep their good nature and integrity in the face of fame...
Gates’ departure grouped him with a host of Harvard dropouts who achieved post-Cambridge fame...
They are also cute, which can’t hurt their popularity. But with all the possibility that recent attention and a new major label release seem to offer, the Von Bondies don’t care what comes of their fame. “[It’s] not like we need to be headlining Lollapalooza next year,” Smith says. “We don’t have really big, crazy goals like that. I love what I do. I love being in this band and it’s an opportunity that...
...must confess that I was originally going to fashion this column rather polemically. Someone like Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86, I had envisioned writing, deserves fame like the Chicago Seven do. Not in the way of a celebrated academic, but in the style of a disenchanted voice shouting against the powers that be—which, from the ivory tower, Palmer has done frequently in any case...