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...impudence and intellect, rapture and irreverence. "Art," he held, "is a beautiful, swollen lie; criticism, a cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...
...encouraged to develop their special talents or interests, ranging from archaeology to automation, from deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many
Those heaping abuse on him could well ponder the words of a politician of some renown: "A great Dane always has little poodles yapping at his heels...
Citation: "Because you bear a name behind whose renown many would doze, you have been privileged to personify the truth that whatever else comes readymade, there are nothing but selfmade...
While Munch's two obsessions drove him to greatness, he never learned to live with them. Shortly before his death at the age of 80, after he had won both honors and renown, he wearily told his doctor: "The last part of my life has been an effort to stand up. My path has always been along an abyss...