Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piatigorsky's suggestion, "Virtually any mediocrity can rise to fame as a maestro," has little truth in fact. The American conductor, in particular, must be a dedicated, articulate and consummate musician if he is to survive the limitations imposed by our culture...
Indian Matinee Idol Dev Anand plays a guide ensnared by a wealthy client's wife, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who is an accomplished snake dancer. He becomes Rosie's manager, and after her debut at a local high school, fame and fortune are theirs. The guide then turns to gambling and debauchery, goes to jail for forgery, ultimately wins redemption when some gullible provincials mistake him for a holy man. Later, the false sadhu fasts and dies a hero after telling a TV interviewer that life has been mostly Rosie...
...form the largest cohesive group of undergraduates and, when mobilized, exert a dynamic influence upon the student body. As class marshals, they lead the line of eager seniors at commencement. They organize class reunions. They become Fellows of the Corporation and members of the Board of Overseers. They win fame and fortune in government and finance, and when they die they leave large sums of money to the University. They are praised in clubhouse fable and song, on building plaques, and in fellowship titles, while lesser figures pass and are forgotten...
Good Manners. In Chicago, where two armories provided tennis fans their only outlet for 20 years, eleven indoor emporiums now thrive, including the swish two-year-old courts in suburban Winnetka financed by the Arthur C. Nielsens (of ratings fame) and the swish Lake Bluff Bath and Tennis Club, whose ultra-exclusive membership (an applicant must have "good tennis manners and be a nice person") has access to squash courts, an ice-skating rink, sauna and toboggan hill in addition to two quality indoor courts. Even Washington, D.C., minus a single indoor club to its name until last fall, today...
...author's fame is founded on her unrivaled insight into the minds of children, her magical flair for conveying their diverse personalities. But, though the author insists that they are unfalteringly serene and happy, Tarl Pracket's children remain ciphers...