Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constantine Nivola. Actually, Nivola, who is an instructor at the School of Design, did for a time attend the Institute Superiore d'Arte of Milan. The school, modeled after Germany's famed Bauhaus, was intended to give Italian architects and designers the same scientific theoretical training that established the renown of the great German academy. In a typically Italian manner, Nivola comments that the institute at Milan didn't even get around to translating the Bauhaus' declaration of principles. "Freedom was the main thing," Nivola recalls, "just like the Renaissance...
...Lyric Productions company are engaged in a gamble that has never paid off in Boston--they are trying to establish a permanent repertory theatre which aims at artistic as well commercial success. Their first effort has its weaknesses, not the least being Thieves' Carnival's previously limited renown. The group therefore relied on its own talents and not the reputation of its vehicle to draw an audience. Fortunately, almost the entire company is skillful enough to deserve a measure of success...
...oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship and reappeared. But their prospects were gloomy under Rojas Pinilla, who seemed to be bucking for renown as Latin America's stubbornest tyrant...
Washerwoman & Kaiser. The Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit...
...Shaw and other literary lights, e.g., Barrie, Maugham. Shaw's later letters to him are scrappy business notes mildly intriguing as a penny-pinching portrait of Shaw guarding his royalties as if he were a branch Bank of England. Golding Bright died in 1941, after some years of renown as a silver-haired dandy who showed up at London first nights in a swirling black cape, with a gold-knobbed stick, and regularly dozed through the play. Nonetheless, he could give uncannily accurate estimates of how long a play would run, suggesting that at least some of Shaw...