Word: renown
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Tucked away near the bottom of the world, the island of Tasmania is an Australian state more or less renowned as the home of Errol Flynn and the Tasmanian wolf. Beyond that, it serves mainland Australia 150 miles to the north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought...
...absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until now, Pito remained untranslated...
...PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Hope's holiday tour of military bases in Guam, Thailand, the Philippines and Viet Nam. Among Bob's troupers: Phyllis Diller, Vic Damone, Reita Faria (Miss World), and Les Brown and his Band of Renown...
...Institute has achieved almost equal renown in physics, thanks in part to the presence of such formative thinkers as Einstein and Niels Bohr. Discoveries recorded there include Oppenheimer's work in particle physics, George Placzek's separation of slow neutrons from solids. Among its historians, probably the most influential is Art Historian Erwin Panofksy, author of the definitive biography...
Plush Exile. Then, last month, Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux appointed Marcel Landowski, a composer of conservative persuasion and little renown, as the ministry's director of music. Boulez hit the ceiling, canceled all future government-connected engagements in France and fired off a scathing letter, which was published in the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. He accused Malraux of jeopardizing France's musical future, called the Landowski appointment "badly thought out, irresponsible and illogical." Malraux, he charged, should understand "that music is a matter sufficiently important not to have it put into the hands of feebleminded and incompetent...