Word: renown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ferocious Union. De Kooning no longer needs to worry about money or renown. His latest oils, priced from $12,000 to $55,000, will almost certainly be snapped up. Critics and scholars besiege him for interviews. Artists trek to his doorstep. Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum will mount a full-scale retrospective of his work next September, which will tour London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...verse by Phillis Wheatley, and a memoir of this poetess by B.B. Thatcher. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) was a slave child sold on the Boston docks to a merchant. She became the first Negro woman--and second American woman--to write a book, and her poetry achieved international renown. She was also the first person to apply the phrase "First in Peace" to George Washington, who wrote to her and praised her literary gifts highly. On a visit to London, she was presented by the Lord Mayor with a fine folio edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, which...
...exhibit of Nakian's work that illustrated how his style, as he says, "grew out of me as a tree grows." Born to Armenian immigrants on Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because they give you form and a grand story...
...Washington on NATO's removal from France, and notably disapproves of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. But elsewhere the "little brother" complex is strengthened by the limitations of Canadian culture. Canada has produced no artists or writers of truly international rank. The only Canadian authors who have achieved renown in the U.S. are the late humorist Stephen Leacock and, currently, Prophet Marshall McLuhan. One difficulty is that Canadian artists, once they begin to succeed, tend to leave their country, a phenomenon described by 19th century Poet Charles G. D. Roberts after he himself moved abroad...
...leadership of Eugene C. Goossen, 46, who took charge at Hunter five years ago, this problem has been tackled in a novel way: Goossen has concentrated on fattening his faculty with the young comers, men who, in his opinion, have outstanding talent but have yet to achieve remuneration and renown...