Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were those, first of all, whose conceptions of the good brave beautiful man they would like to be had made academic life dangerously unsatisfying. At another level, this usually seems to have had something to do with a left-wing upbringing, some early identification, a driving need for fame, notoriety, praise or persecution, or an inadequate sex life on the campus. At first they debated a great deal about the Movement: Was it revolutionary or reformist and so on. But for all of them, working for SNCC was going to solve a lot of personal problems, and identification with...
...Fame. At 4:45 p.m., Saigon Radio, which abruptly ceased broadcasting at the start of the fighting, returned to the air. "Soldiers in the army, security service, civil defense force, and people's force," blared the radio. "The Ngo Dinh Diem government, abusing power, has thought only of personal ambition and slighted the fatherland's interests . . . The army has swung into action. The task of you all is to unite . . . The revolution will certainly be successful...
...been close to the Americans-so close that he went to a dinner for Admiral Felt the night before the coup, calmly saw Felt off at the airport shortly before the shooting started. "We have no political ambitions," declared the generals' communiqué. "We act not for fame or benefit, but to save our beloved fatherland...
Died. Gustaf Gründgens, 63, Germany's most celebrated actor, producer and director, an elegant, arrogant Düsseldorfer who rose to fame in the 1920s as Hamlet and the mocking Mephistopheles of Faust, lost most of his friends when he became Hitler's chief of state theaters, yet proved so irreplaceable that after the war he was chosen to direct the state theaters of Düsseldorf (1947-54) and Hamburg (1955-63), making them the top German stages with a repertory of classics (Schiller, Ibsen) and moderns (Brecht, Eliot); of an accidental overdose of barbiturates...
Died. Anna Evangeline La Chappelle Clark, 85, widow of Montana Copper King William Andrews Clark, a Michigan doctor's daughter who became Clark's ward at the height of his fame, married him in 1901 after his first wife died (he was 62), moved into his $6,000,000 Fifth Avenue mansion (121 rooms, 31 baths), after his death in 1925 (leaving a $50 million estate) sold the house to spend much of her time in California, where she founded the Paganini Quartet and equipped it with Paganini's own Stradivariuses at a cost...