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...other, I'll be famous, and if not famous, notorious." Such heady ambitions are fairly common in the young, but the Oxford undergraduate who uttered these words in 1874 got all of his wishes, and then some. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde not only achieved the most glittering renown of his era but the most abject humiliation as well. He flew higher and fell farther than any of his contemporaries, and his life had become a legend well before his death in a shabby Paris hotel in 1900. He had wrought his fate in only 46 years, but they...
...hermetic world of percussionists, Stevens has won renown for his innovation, which extends to the manufacture of mallets and the design of a new marimba. He is also struggling to create a repertory, which previously had consisted largely of transcriptions and arrangements. Stevens has performed more than 25 new works and commissioned an unaccompanied solo piece from John Corigliano. Slowly, the musical world is getting the message. In recent seasons, Stevens, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music who lives in Asbury Park, N.J., has been booked for as many as 50 performances, and audience reception has been enthusiastic...
...name was catchy, bold and more than a trifle arrogant. Moral Majority. Rarely has an organization set so many teeth on edge so rapidly. The man who founded this multifaith right-wing organization in 1979 was a Fundamentalist of modest renown who was fast on his feet and firm in his convictions. Within a year, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, riding the Reagan tide, had become the most prominent spokesman for the loose coalition known as the Religious Right...
None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
What is this Stakhanovite society? No, not Japan, for all its renown as the exemplar of dedicated labor. South Korea? Taiwan? West Germany? No, again. Every one of the trends cited is occurring in the U.S. -- the very country Richard Nixon once said was being overtaken by a "new welfare ethic that could cause the American character to weaken." Nixon need not have worried: 15 years after he voiced his forebodings, and as Labor Day approaches, every indication is that 112.7 million Americans by and large are working as hard as ever, and sometimes harder, even where the vaunted computer...