Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
...painted by Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk), who, although a founder of the expressionist school of painting, has only lately begun to gain some of the fame of his turn-of-the-century contemporaries, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Considered a madman much of his life, the anguished and neurotic Munch was the son of a military surgeon who became a religious fanatic later in life and of a mother who died of tuberculosis when the boy was five. "I always felt," recalled Munch, "that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment...
Though it is twice the size of Texas West Africa's arid, landlocked Mali Republic (pop. 3,700,000) has little claim to fame beyond being the place where Timbuctoo is. Last week the news from Timbuctoo, now a crumbling mud village on the edge of the Sahara, was that the Russians would soon be there...
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...despairing architect hero of Greene's latest and best novel attempts to isolate himself from worldwide fame by retreating to a tropical leper hospital. Yet what he finds is a mirror image of himself and of the civilization that he fled...