Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good nature, he made a poor adjustment to civilian life. Without a veteran's pension of $96 a year, he would have starved. Martin was 70 when he wrote his memoirs, but the little volume, bound between two boards with a calf-leather spine, won its author no fame. The current printing, the first in 132 years, is ably annotated by Scholar and Editor George F. Scheer and should correct history's lapse...
...Gamma Delta house, slung hash in a sorority, made Phi Beta Kappa-and became a Democrat. These were Depression years, and White was impressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. "It seemed to me," he recalls, "that the Democrats had the more forward-looking programs." Hall of Fame. As a 6 ft. 2 in., 190-lb. halfback, White was a star passer, punter and runner for three seasons, 1935-36-37; in his senior year he led all major college backs in both scoring and rushing (16 touchdowns, 23 extra points), paced Colorado to an undefeated regular season...
...fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci and the old man Eleazar of Halevy's La Juive, which has not been given at the Met since Martinelli sang it in 1936. Explains Tucker: "Pagliacci tears every fiber of your body. I'm still growing. When...
...Merrill-Palmer School in Detroit." His wisdom will be seined with questions that range upward in difficulty from "Are there promiscuous men?" to "Does promiscuity itself constitute a threat to our society?" Unsurprisingly, NBC's Specials for Women have been showered with awards from organizations like Fame magazine and Radio-TV Mirror. The Specials for Women are reasonably good shows, marked on TV's achievement curve, but they are not what they purport to be: serious studies of women at the crossroads...
Whatever inspiration they may have given him in life, women have been some thing of a cross to the fame of Jacques-Louis David, the painter-prophet of the French Revolution. Eleven years ago, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the unhappy fact that one of its most popular paintings - a portrait of a young woman, attributed to David and valued at some $100,000 - was not by David at all. The real artist was Constance Marie Charpentier, an obscure but obviously admiring David follower. Last week, David was in the news again. In the scholarly French review...