Word: antisuccess
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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They include the state, which has usurped most of the capital-accumulating and distributing functions of the old industrial upper class, the decline of distinguished families like the Adamses, and a sustained attack on worldly success by novelists and intellectuals. "Antisuccess," he says, "has been perhaps the strongest strain in American literature of the past half-century. And to be against success is to put ambition itself in grave doubt...
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