Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the Boston model agent's praise of Harvard senior Elizabeth Evans is more a result of her All-American looks than her All-American tennis skills.
Usher's praise for players extended through the ranks, including freshman Karen Kodsi who "gave the team a lot of spark." Usher said after she won the first match in three sets over a Richmond University opponent.
Birnbach's effort has received mixed grades. Her mostly favorable description of Amherst strikes its public affairs director, Douglas Wilson, as "fair enough," and her in-person approach gets praise from W.W. Washburn, head of admissions at the University of Washington. But other administrators award her a D-. A...
Not only was Ironweed published to high praise but interest revived in Kennedy's previous novels, Billy Phelan and Legs, a fictional treatment of the life of Jack ("Legs") Diamond.
When a writer achieves international renown, translators and publishers work overtime spreading all of the new celebrity's good words. This commendable practice has an unsettling side effect: careers can appear to run backward. The case of Italian Author Italo Calvino is instructive. His reputation grew from such cerebral...