Word: renown
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Kampf's piece is excellent as an historical examination of the traditional problems of Jewish writers in America. By the way, Daniel Fuchs' novel, Homage to Blenholt, whose obscurity Kampf laments, has achieved enough renown to make the supplementary reading list of History 163. Perhaps next year it will be required, and really have status...
While Harvard's President (1869-1909) Charles W. Eliot won renown in Boston, his first cousin pioneered in St. Louis. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, who had toiled in a post office dead-letter department before becoming a Unitarian minister, founded not only St. Louis' first Unitarian church and Washington University but also an influential family; among his grandsons is T. S. Eliot. Last week, fittingly enough, Washington University (fulltime enrollment: 6,000) named a Boston Eliot as its twelfth chancellor. He is Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, grandson of Charles W. and fifth cousin of Poet...
...grand panjandrum of British criticism, stiletto-tongued Frank Raymond Leavis, 66, set off the biggest explosion to rock Britain's literary Establishment in a decade. Leavis' target: Author-Bureaucrat Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, whose, eight-volume novel cycle, Strangers and Brothers, has won him transatlantic renown as a perceptive interpreter of the new scientific culture of the 20th century. Dismissing their author as "portentously ignorant," irascible Humanist Leavis suggested that Snow's books "are composed for him by an electronic brain called Charlie, into which the instructions are fed in the form of the chapter headings...
...best-known Roman Catholic university, and has become the most influential figure in the reshaping of Catholic higher education in the U.S. A school once known chiefly for a football team is trying to rise above the undistinguished record of U.S. Catholic colleges in general and reach for the renown of the Catholic universities of the Middle Ages...
...published six novels and numerous short stories to mixed notices. But Main Street touched a contemporary nerve as no novel has done since. It sold furiously and was discussed endlessly. Within ten years, it was followed by Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry and Dodsworth. They brought Lewis wealth and world renown, both of which were cosmetics for an unattractive man. And in 1930 they brought him the Nobel Prize for literature, making Lewis the first American to win this International accolade...