Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly two years after its explosion in fire, bloodshed and ugly fame, Watts last week showed a striking change of face. Two thousand youngsters worked cheerfully at $1.27 an hour to beautify the ghetto streets; 2,400 more sang and sweated to overhaul an Army camp. Trees were growing, flowers were planted, and the slum dwellers were even about to take up farming. Watts today is no man's El Dorado, but it is no longer a no-man's land. There are hopeful new blossoms in yesterday's burned-out jungle...
...forgotten names of American art are William Sidney Mount and Richard Caton Woodville. Both were Easterners-Mount from Long Island, Woodville from Baltimore -both enjoyed a measure of fame for their lusty colloquial vignettes of the U.S. in the mid-1800s, and both have been largely ignored in the century since. Now, as art historians rummage around to reconstruct the country's long-neglected artistic heritage, the two are getting a new and appreciative audience (see color page...
...Fame came belatedly, perhaps because of his modest nature. In 1936 he created four reliefs for the Paris world's fair. In 1950, Henri Matisse shared the Venice Biennale's grand prize with Laurens; in 1953, Laurens won the Sao Paulo Bienal's grand prize. He died of a heart attack a year later at the age of 69, and since then, through half a dozen major exhibitions, critics have waxed ever more enthusiastic, calling him the single most important French sculptor of the century. Plans call for the current monumental show to tour abroad for several...
...much of the same hushed awe of his Manzoni Requiem; not mentioned in the standard Verdi catalogue, the song was flushed out of an obscure Italian library by Verdi Scholar David Stivender. Other long-lost scores, such as the charming and perky Wind Quintet by Ponchielli (of La Gioconda fame) were found in editions long out of print...
Cheerleading tryouts for the Boston Patriots-Washington Redskins game will be held Monday, August 21, at 2:30 p.m. in the Adams House Courtyard. No cheerleading experience required. Summer School girls cordially invited. Previous cheerleaders have been known to achieve fame, riches, instant recognition, and other good things. You remember Roxanne Merganthaler, of course...