Word: renown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special partnerships.) Waller, drumming, is anguished in expression and his hands fly at Jeff's beckoning. Beck stands right by his shoulder watching the drum rallies shake the notes out of his guitar so they slip into the crevices of the beat. Waller too was a studio musician of renown before Beck acquired him, and he too particularly enjoys the freedom and excitement of playing with this group...
...Kremlin have long been troubled by the challenge of great writers. When Tolstoy spoke out against famine or religious persecution in 19th century Russia, his voice so carried around the world that the czars took heed. In the early years of Communist rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They...
Alas, the style that West developed in Rome and later brought to England was anything but natural. He experimented with pompous neoclassicism, then bombastic religious allegory. He pioneered in introducing elements of realism into his heavy historical tableaux, won riches and renown, was elected president of the Royal Academy. But to Byron...
...side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soupçon, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut? They did improve the breed, they kept alive The sport of kings, so that, in 1905, The naming of this racecourse set the crown Of laurel on their virtuous renown, As beautiful, as elegant a setting As one could ever hope to find for betting...
...Wallace's neglect and alleviate a major economic crisis. Although Brewer earlier supported Wallace, he is no sycophant. A conservative segregationist, Brewer shuns public talk of racism and has no stomach for Wallace's stem-winding battles with Washington. As his own man, Brewer enjoys statewide renown, could prove a formidable opponent to Wallace if, as expected, they square off in 1970 for the governorship...