Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m. nationwide; WNBC-TV in New York, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). Burr Tilstrom and his Kuklapolitans host Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas opera, Amah] and the Night Visitors...
...BINGHAMTON is the only university unit devoted entirely to liberal arts. It is building on the scholarly fame of its incorporated Harpur College, which in turn had been created by Syracuse University to handle the G.I. Bill student surge. More than three-fourths of Bing hamton's students come from the top 10% of their high-school classes. The school has an enthusiastic new president in former University of Delaware Arts and Science Dean Bruce Dearing "It's exciting to be somewhere that's growing rather than just tend the shop where someone else...
...Though he is the shortest (5 ft. 7 in.) of the male soloists, he is a man to look up to. With a flex of his coiled-spring legs, he can probably leap higher than anyone else anywhere in the world. But he has a high distaste for fame as a human jack-in-the-box. "Jumping is not an end in itself," Kehlet explains. "How you get up there and how you get back is not important. It's what you do when you're up there that counts." What he does way up there...
After doing time on a drug rap, Chico comes home chastened, then stumbles into every conceivable temptation. His parents object to the company he keeps, so he moves in with a chic call girl, played by fiery Mexican Beauty Kitty de Hoyos, whose claim to fame loses nothing in translation. Because his hooker cannot support both him and her drug habit forever, Chico starts peddling heroin, ultimately resumes using...
Jose Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) presents a claim to fame that is also a patent of obscurity. He is the major novelist of a minor language: Portuguese. A scrawny chap with big buck teeth and a hook nose, Eça de Queiroz (pronounced Essa de Kay-rozh) spent most of his life as a Portuguese consul in London and Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation...