Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most brilliant mind of the 18th century? A good case could be made for Newton, Voltaire, Samuel Johnson-or for Emanuel Swedenborg, the polymathic scientist and seer whose fame lingers on not just in literature but in churches that honor his writing as the vehicle for the second coming of God's word...
...film's effectiveness fades be cause of an unconvincing plot, more agonized than acted by Susan Strasberg, who appears in a cold-blooded analogue of the Anne Frank role in which she first won fame on Broadway. Cast as a French adolescent, she conceals her Jewish origin, volunteers as a playmate for the SS in order to get food, steals the socks off a dead comrade who once saved her life, and finally becomes a dread Kapo-"head" or trusty-who assumes guard duties, wielding a rubber truncheon against fellow inmates. This unsympathetic behavior nearly amounts to a forceful...
...wakes and corpses that sat up in their shrouds. Yet the special charm of this book is that it manages to describe Irish peasant life without condescension or that peculiar quaintness which often produces a distinct aroma of poteen and formaldehyde. The book's other claim to fame is that (for reasons not even Fellow Irishman Frank O'Connor, who provides the introduction, can fully explain) it was banned by the government in 1943 as "in general tendency indecent." The ban has since been lifted...
...fatherhood without the pain, since his "sons" changed every year. Holmes's legal family became so popular that it soon grew into a sort of Rhodes scholarship of U.S. law. Clerking for the Supreme Court is now a launching pad for all kinds of later fame -be it heading the State Department (Dean Acheson), running U.S. Steel (Irving Olds), going to jail (Alger Hiss), becoming a leading sociologist (David Riesrnan), or returning as a Supreme Court Justice (Byron White). "It is much more than a meal ticket," explains one ex-clerk. "It's an incalculably valuable experience...
...dice with disaster. Drivers come and go, cars change, engines get bigger. The one constant is danger. In 54 years of Memorial Day racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 56 people have died. But nobody has to twist a driver's arm to compete. The prospect of instant fame and fortune is inducement enough -even though he knows, as Eddie Sachs once said, that "in the long run, death is the odds-on favorite...