Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pain and entreaty, of Jed himself holding a gun to the head of a German officer sneering "Heil Hitler!" The lingering force of these images is linked to the mode of narration; Jed tells his story--an odyssey which takes him from Dugton, Alabamaa to academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like his entire life, represents an attempt to come to terms with his roots, to discover in the sturdy consistency of his mother and the recklessness of his drunkard father a source of self...
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...