Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charlie's greatest fame in recent years has been his steady siring of children. He has seven by his 36-year-old wife of 18 years*-and she is pregnant again. Oona believes in natural childbirth, a technique she learned with the last baby. Enthusiastically, she declares that all their future children will be delivered by natural childbirth, too. Oona is Charlie's fourth wife, but the first who could manage...
...Americans have ever heard of Jacques Séraphin Audiberti, but in Europe his fame is that of a Tennessee Williams or an Arthur Miller. At 63, Audiberti is considered by some critics to be France's best postwar playwright and a prime candidate for the Academic Française. He is also turning out to be somewhat controversial for a man who claims that he is "very bourgeois" and "not at all avant-garde." Last week Audiberti was in seclusion at a country house 60 miles outside Paris after one of his plays had shocked old-line Paris...
Singer's older brother, Israel Joshua Singer, whose comprehensive social novels later brought him fame, was a child of the Enlightenment. He challenged traditional beliefs, and Singer recalls listening, as a child of eleven, to an argument between his brother and his father over the existence of God. His father ended the argument by asking, "Well, who created the world...
...taste of fame and the energizing sense of being the cause of controversy came to David Park only in the five years before his death in 1960. He was one of a number of painters who plunged into abstractionism and then returned to the figure-and his defection helped inspire a full-scale rebellion among painters around San Francisco. Dying of cancer at 49, he never fulfilled his own promise as an artist-yet his achievement was sufficient to make him one of the most significaf.; U.S. painters of the 1950s...
...chief problems today should come from first sacker Larry McNulty (of basketball fame), shortstop Adam Florczak, and center fielder Ralph Powers. All three are averaging around...