Word: limelighted
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...investigation will be far from adequate fare for those who are scarching for the "deeper implication of things." His work to date is only a very funny burlesque of the Senate War Investigating Committee, whose activities saved the Government-billions of dollars and put Harry Truman in the political limelight. So far the worst that can be said of Hughes is that he used on a grand scale the same tactics that any small business man adopts when he invites a potential buyer home for dinner in the hope that the good cooking and flattery of the "little woman" will...
...spite of his efforts to stay out of the limelight, shy Dmitri Shostakovich stole the show. One of the festival's big events was his Eighth Symphony, conducted by friend Eugene Mravinsky (to whom the Eighth is dedicated), conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. When the Czech radio recently played the Eighth, the score was altered because it was considered too difficult to play; this time Mravinsky brought along his own score...
...Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear of the court and stepped out of the limelight to live in hiding under a different name. Only if the police caught two spy suspects who are still at large, needed him for testifying, would Igor Gouzenko make a brief appearance again...
...were forgotten. Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture. Fiery David Alfaro Siqueiros, a spotlight lover himself, knew well whose turn it was this night. He kept drawing Jose Clemente Orozco back into the limelight each time the shy, shabby little one-armed man tried to shuffle off to a corner...
...Communist issue, moreover, that the attack will no longer center solely on the social and economic views a particular professor happens to embrace. The oft-repeated struggle for academic freedom, most recently waged by students at the University of Texas in the Rainey incident, is likely to share the limelight this time with a struggle for freedom of campus organizations...