Word: plaudite
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Illogical Decision. On hand to receive this plaudit was Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the man who in 1968 ordered troops from Russia and four other Warsaw Pact nations to invade Czechoslovakia. Confronted then by a popular, heavily publicized deviation from the socialist norm in Czechoslovakia, the Russians misjudged it. They let the Prague Spring reach full blossom, then felt compelled to crush it. Now, three years afterward, outside criticism of Soviet ham-handedness has largely faded. Thus last week's congress turned into a Brezhnev victory: he responded beamingly to Husák's "sincere thanks...
...plaudit for Chaliapin's Bacall à la Botticelli. She emerges bewitching and eternally feminine right into our frantic 20th century...
...Japan from runaway inflation by imposing a regimen of austerity. He combed the national budget, once caught Japanese officials charging geisha girls to "miscellaneous" on their expense accounts. Dodge gave Japan its first balanced budget in 19 years. For his work of stabilizing the Japanese yen, his most valued plaudit came from a Japanese Cabinet minister, who reported: "The thieves are now stealing money instead of goods...
...Time's" plaudit appeared in a feature on Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, whose work is now on exhibition in Boston. Gropius, better known for his pre-war projects in Germany, was a key figure in the designing of the Graduate Center...
...82nd birthday, Painter Henri Matisse received an abstract plaudit from Painter Pablo Picasso, who wrote: "No painter has ever tickled painting to such bursts of laughter...