Word: famed
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Virtually any mediocrity can rise to fame as a maestro, Piatigorsky suggests, provided that he learn to excel as "a charmer, a speaker, an organizer and a bridge player. His own family life must be irreproachably pure, and at times a single mistake like poor concealment of pornographic material in his luggage, or introducing as his wife a lady who wasn't, has cost a prominent conductor...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a television adaptation of Emmet Lavery's The Magnificent Yankee, a dramatization of the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Palace, the 320-room mansion that a grateful nation bestowed on his ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. School, by contrast, bored him; he was a poor student who allowed in later life that "no one has ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees." Fame was always his spur. As a newly commissioned subaltern in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, he searched impatiently for battlefields to prove his mettle. It was a poor time for the molding of heroes. The Industrial Revolution had raised Victoria's England to a position of surpassing...
Sheeler's fame in U.S. art history is already assured. Hard-edge and pop artists today acknowledge that they owe a clear debt to him. But he was "deeply moved by the response of the youngest generation," aged seven to twelve years, who have rated him No. 1 among such company as Cézanne, Franz Kline, Ben Shahn, Van Gogh and Robert Indiana. Some 300 children at U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School preferred slides of Sheeler's work to those of any other artist. Their art teacher suggested last year that they write to the artist...
Moreover, as the London Symphony discovered from a triumphal world tour last year, none of Britain's top orchestras have fully exploited their international fame. Last week, the New Philharmonia announced plans for a tour of Mexico and South America this summer, to be followed by a swing through Europe. Next year the orchestra that wouldn't die will make its first U.S. tour in a decade...