Not long ago, central bankers in the United States, the European Union and fast-growing emerging countries like Turkey and Brazil were being hailed.
Within days, their contents spread around the world and were being hailed by CRU's enemies as evidence of anything from poor science to a full-blown criminal conspiracy.
The states, it seemed, had figured out how to do things right, and they were being hailed as the model Washington ought to follow.
Before last Sunday's regular-season finale against those same Cowboys, Jackson and the Eagles were being hailed for the big-play offense that had sparked a six-game winning streak and fanned Super Bowl hopes.
But for decades, while HeLa cells were routinely being used in laboratories around the world, and were being hailed as pivotal in breakthrough after breakthrough, no one seems to have stopped to think about the person behind them.
Rorem was among the last American artists to pull off a plausible Parisian exile, and when he came back, in 1957, he found that composers were being hailed not for the excellence of their craft but for the extravagance of their theories.
