Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it, Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera.

God knew his tears were his to shed if he so desired, for it had not been with an egotist's rage for fame that he had held precious his naval career.

Another field had given him fame enough to satisfy any egotist.

Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.

The play brought fame to the 23-year-old Jarry, and he immersed himself in the fiction he had created.

Atlas Autocode's second-greatest claim to fame ( after being the progenitor of Imp and EMAS ) was that it had many of the features of the original " Compiler Compiler ".

Sometimes he had to justify his European fame: ' According to the Union of Soviet Writers, some literature circles of the West see unusual importance of my work, not matching its modesty and low productivity …'"

The fame of Columbanus had preceded him.

By 1827, he had abandoned law and embarked on a geological career that would result in fame and the general acceptance of uniformitarianism, a working out of the idea proposed by James Hutton a few decades earlier.

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

Italian companies also had a strong line in slapstick comedy, with actors like André Deed, known locally as " Cretinetti ", and elsewhere as " Foolshead " and " Gribouille ", achieving worldwide fame with his almost surrealistic gags.

A friend of Roberts was Kathryn Kuhlman, another popular faith healer, who gained fame in the 1950s and had a television program on CBS.

He contributed to both of the first science fiction fanzines, The Time Traveller, and the Science Fiction Magazine, published and edited by Shuster & Siegel of Superman fame, in 1932, and by 1933 had 127 correspondents around the world.

Italy itself had yet to produce anyone of comparable fame or skill in polyphony.

Although it was the operas with Gilbert that had earned him the broadest fame, the honour was conferred for his services to serious music.

The growing fame of Ely Culbertson, however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue bridge competitions, where he attracted the attention of Milton Work, who had developed the Work Point Count system.

It certainly wasn't in a quest for immortal fame since poets in his era had no such notions.

In 1955, the year after Attucks had lost in the semistate final ( state quarterfinals ) to Milan's championship team, Attucks gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title open to all schools regardless of race.

Justinian achieved lasting fame through his judicial reforms, particularly through the complete revision of all Roman law, something that had not previously been attempted.

Bacon's debut in the fraternity comedy Animal House in 1978 did not lead to the fame for which he had hoped, and Bacon returned to waiting tables and auditioning for small roles in theater.

The couple had numerous marital problems, notably Moore's alcoholism, insecurity about living in the shadow of Pickford's fame, and bouts of domestic violence.

His increased fame led to offers and commissions outside Finland.

His reputation so increased the fame of the University of Leiden, especially as a school of medicine, that it became popular with visitors from every part of Europe.

Post Civil War, as the volunteer armies disbanded, the regular army cavalry regiments increased in number from six to ten, among them the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment of Little Bighorn fame, and the African-American U. S. 9th Cavalry Regiment and U. S. 10th Cavalry Regiment.

Grant's fame increased throughout the country, and he was promoted to Lieutenant General, a position that had previously been given to George Washington and given to Winfield Scott as a brevet promotion.

Bertolucci increased his fame with his next few films, from Novecento ( 1976 ), an epic depiction of the struggles of farmers in Emilia-Romagna from the beginning of the 20th century up to World War II with an impressive international cast ( Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda ) to La Luna, set in Rome and in Emilia-Romagna, in which Bertolucci deals with the thorny issue of drugs and incest, and finally La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo ( 1981 ), with Ugo Tognazzi.

However, its fame has greatly increased mainly because of the many network telecasts of the 1939 film version of the book.

The fame of his gallery was increased at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where he presented coordinated —- in design and color —- installations of modern furniture, tapestries and objets d ' art.

Rothko ’ s fame and wealth had substantially increased ; his paintings began to sell to notable collectors, including the Rockefellers.

They gained national fame on the radio and increased it consistently from 1977 onwards eventually becoming TV stars with the shows Non Stop, La sberla ( 1978 ) and Luna Park ( 1979 ).

While his fame may have increased in the intervening years, the facts about his life have become less discernible.

The fame of Scherpenheuvel increased and increasing numbers of people arrived, begging for protection against plague and famine that swept the Low Countries as a consequence of the " Eighty Years War " ( Dutch Revolt ).

Although she continued to photograph on assignment ( e. g., in 1968 she shot documentary photographs of poor sharecroppers in rural South Carolina for Esquire magazine ), in general her magazine assignments decreased as her fame as an artist increased.

In 1967, the Maharishi's fame increased and his movement " really took off " when he became the " spiritual advisor to The Beatles ".

She and Johnny worked together on a touring cookery show, sponsored by the Gas Council, to show how gas could be used easily in the kitchen, and as their fame increased, Fanny ’ s shows transferred to television, where she enjoyed 20 years of success.

In 1809 he finished his well-known picture of Dentatus, which, though it increased his fame, resulted in a lifelong quarrel with the Royal Academy, whose committee had hung it in a small side-room instead of the great hall.

In 1932, her fame increased to the point where she embarked upon a large tour of the Middle East, touring such cities as Damascus, Syria ; Baghdad, Iraq ; Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon.

At these Labour congresses, the fame of which was only increased by the fact that they were forbidden, it had been affirmed that the social emancipation of the worker was inseparable from his political emancipation.

The same year, he published The Biglow Papers, which increased his fame.

In spite of the troubles of the times, so fatal to poetic fame, his reputation steadily increased, and when, on his return to England in 1656, he published a volume of his collected poetical works, he found himself without a rival in public esteem.

However, despite containing material similar to Peeping Tom, Psycho became a box-office success and only increased the popularity and fame of its director ( although the film was widely criticized in the English press ).

Part of the increased support saw the posting in early November of Major Orde Wingate ( who had spent five inter-war years with the Sudan Defence Force and was later to gain fame in Burma with the Chindits ) to Khartoum as a staff officer with the brief of liaising between Platt, Mission 101 and the Emperor.

In 1860, he published a small book, which, although a commercial failure, increased his fame.

Interest in Scottish Gaelic culture greatly increased during the onset of the Romantic period in the late 18th century, with James Macpherson's Ossian achieving international fame, along with the novels of Sir Walter Scott and the poetry and song lyrics of the London-based Irishman Thomas Moore, Byron's friend and executor.

Mosley's fame increased in 1992 when then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors.