Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When coaches from Yale, Stanford and the University of Virginia came to our high school to woo our basketball players, Kenny was dazzling, bringing the James Madison hoopsters into the limelight. Eliot advised Kenny to guard against the steak dinners at the Yale Club and contact Harvard. (Harvard has a rule forbidding coaches from courting perspective Crimson cagers.) Following his brother's suggestion, Wolfe applied to Harvard and was admitted...
...Leonard. Much in the same manner as George Lewes upheld George Eliot so was Leonard indispensable in his wife's career. Without his steady, competent encouragement, she would not have become a major celebrity, and without Virginia to care for, Leonard might have commanded much more of the limelight...
Transcendental Meditation first appeared on the California horizon 13 years ago when Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of India introduced the technique to this country. In 1967 after a period of gradual expansion. TM suddenly burst into the limelight when the Beatles. Mia Farrow and other celebities adopted Maharishi's method...
...Marjoe maintains, he could not have been held accountable for his acts, although he admists never to have believed at any time in the truthfulness of what he was doing. The movement attracted him with its glitter and the limelight t assured him. What Marjoe does not acknowledge is the relation between his craving for attention and the cruelty of his mother, who dunked his head underwater or smothered him with a pillow to insure that her young "gimmick" memorized his allegedly God inspired sermons contentiously Rather, he insists that he resented his lather more although he actually hates neither...
...second-guess Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald's decision to talk to the prisoners, but it contended that he should not have negotiated with more than 1,200 rioters looking on. Nor should newsmen and TV cameras have been permitted into the yard, thereby giving rioters a national limelight that they were unwilling to relinquish. The 33 "citizen observers"-an unwieldy group including Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, were too "racked with ideological differences" to be much help. The commission agreed that granting total amnesty was impossible, but chided officials for not making sufficiently...