Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fame at 26. Stieglitz himself was just as flamboyant and talkative as his art was quiet. His father, a Manhattan wool merchant, had sent him to study engineering in Berlin, but he liked studying photography better. He came home famous at 26, in a few years had won 150 prizes. Stieglitz was already becoming noted for his "firsts." He was the first to photograph moving objects at night. His imaginative eye made him a pioneer in picturing airplanes, snowstorms, skyscrapers, clouds. Then, flaunting his black cape in the face of the American dollar, the young romantic announced that he disliked...
...Fame on the Fly. President Grant and most of his Cabinet were on hand for the unveiling; Emerson and James Russell Lowell sat with them. "This is Fame, Dan!" Judge French counseled his 24-year-old son: "Make the most of it, for you don't know how long it will last...
...long time before Daniel again managed so lively looking a bronze as the Minute Man, but his fame was already as secure as the statue itself. He made as much as $80,000 in a year. His sculpture did not have the clean perfection of the Greeks or the fire of Rodin, but it was recognizably romantic and faintly classical-a popular blend. Daniel achieved his greatest sculptural triumph-the Lincoln Memorial statue...
...lecturing) because he loves his job. His entire working life has been spent on the Journal; he became the assistant editor in 1912, a year after he graduated from Rush Medical College. Fishbein has one absorbing interest-medical research -and two absorbing hatreds-quacks and socialized medicine. His special fame has come from his slam-bang crusading in all three fields...
Bartók, despite a fearsome reputation for arid dissonance, was actually writing fresh and melodic works in his last years. Even with passages that seem to be fiddling for fiddling's sake, Bartók's lone major work for violin should add to his tardy fame. Recording: excellent...