Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They brought Lewis wealth and world renown, both of which were cosmetics for an unattractive man." See BOOKS, Lonely Cameraman...
...late Werner Heldt was called "the Utrillo of Berlin," a tag that enraged him all the more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...
...ailing retired American general named Joseph Reed, a former aide to General Washington, set sail for England to pay a visit to the family of his late wife. In his luggage he carried two fine portraits done by his old friend Charles Willson Peale. Both had renown at home and might well have drawn favorable notice in Britain. Instead, they disappeared from art history...
...explanation lies in the fact that, like the composer Rameau, Pirandello first turned to the stage at the age of 50, and there wrought his finest work. He had begun as a poet, and then gained renown as a novelist. So he had plenty of writing experience when he decided the theatre was his true metier...
...idea so well that he stole it. But nine months later, after achieving a circulation of 90, the Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences and Pennsylvania Gazette was sold to Franklin, who shortened the title to the Pennsylvania Gazette and set the weekly on the road to renown...