Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allport was world-famous as a leading theorist in the field of personality psychology and an authority on group prejudice and race relations...
...defense is one of the best anywhere. Tackles Wilson Whitty and 240 pound Ray Norton should pressure Ric Zimmerman all afternoon, and may be able to slow down Harvard's famous ground game. Norton was All-East in 1966, and Whitty may join him this year...
...easily atone for an occasional ensemble roughness. Its repertory is impressively varied, including several company-created works by Joffrey and Gerald Arpino that cover the field from delicate, classic grace (Viva Vivaldi, Pas des Déesses) to revivals of such historic works as Kurt Jooss's famous old antiwar shocker The Green Table...
...embarrassed moments, the early confidence had gone. The actress responded like a Miss Universe candidate who had just popped a shoulder strap. Nevertheless, she returned the next day for more of the shame. Though Strasberg's famous pop-psych approach to acting has lately been criticized as much as it has been acclaimed in the U.S., the French have welcomed him as though he were Stanislavsky reincarnate. "The event of the theatrical season," trumpeted Le Monde, and 443 theater folk from 26 countries plunked down $60 each to get the Strasberg pitch. Among the students who enrolled...
...inhabitants in pre-recorded history developed a civilization with advanced knowledge of astronomy and engineering, great road-building ability, a written language. Most famous achievements were their alms (temples) and moai (great stone monoliths), the largest of which weigh up to 80 tons, rise to the height of a six-story building. Now in the person of Capuchin Father Sebastian Englert, 78, comes word that quick action is needed if the great sculptures are to survive. "It is an urgent matter," Father Sebastian told a New York audience, "which cannot wait...