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Next to Richard Nixon, the person whose career has been most dramatically affected by the tape recorder is Studs Terkel. Although he earned patchy renown as a Chicago radio-TV personality, Terkel's national prominence came through three books crammed with transcripts of other people's conversations: Division Street: America, Hard Times and Working. The subjects changed with each book, but Terkel's theme did not: I hear America speaking. All the while the most provocative talker was a rumpled man with floppy white hair and an omnipresent cigar-the one who was asking the questions...
Kremer appears headed for international renown. His technique is complete, his tone thinner than some but capable of glorious sunbursts of sound. He is no "Watch me go" virtuoso. His debut program, for example, was devoid of the crowd-arousing Romantic potboilers favored by so many of his Soviet predecessors. Instead, he and his piano accompanist, Xenia Knorre, played Beethoven's dreamy, introspective Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96. And wonderfully. They also offered an American work not many U.S. artists take the trouble to learn: Charles Ives' frolicsome Sonata No. 4 (Children...
...king flying without wings, ruling by the power of imagination and renown...
...growth of a museum network coincided with the emergence of two art ists, David Smith and Alexander Calder, who became the first American sculptors to achieve international renown: their work influenced Europeans as no previous New World artists' had, and with it American sculpture was seen to have transcended its provincialism at last. The task of describing the crucial period 1930-50, which saw the emergence of a dazzling array of technical options-movement in sculpture, open-welded construction, the use of found objects-and the rise not only of Smith and Calder but also of Louise Nevelson, Isamu...
Pannenberg speaks from the experience of his youth. Brought up as a Nazi atheist, he fought his way free of Hitlerian nihilism and underwent an intellectual conversion to Christianity. Pannenberg first won renown in the 1960s as a member of the "revelation as history" school in theology. He accused the pre-eminent Protestant thinkers, Rudolf Bultmann and Karl Earth, of divorcing Christian faith from history and therefore from rational thought, by ultimately basing their theologies on subjective standards...