Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mindful of this injunction, Bender quits school and goes to work so that his indolent brother Babe can have a college education. But Babe is fated to fail in business, while Irving succeeds as a bootlegger during the Depression and later as the owner of a summer camp in the Poconos. Surrounded by unpleasant, thwarted people-his troubled niece, his grasping, self-pitying mother-Bender ministers to their emotional demands and grows old alone...
Brackman's future depends, in part, on the success of his current ventures. But even if they all fail, he will be able to bounce back. Witty personable, and clearly facile with a typewriter, he will be able to bounce into almost any kind of new project. And it is not until the end of the interview that he.unloads the precious secret of his avocation: "I became a writer so I could wear a sweater...
...President is not planning to put any overall American proposal on the bargaining table because that would probably lead to cries of an "imposed peace." But if other efforts fail, he may issue a declaration describing U.S. "ideas" for a comprehensive peace. He much prefers, however, simply to make suggestions on crucial points and try to steer the talks toward a balanced outcome...
...worked out. Key Cardinals approached Angelo Roncalli, the man who became Pope John XXIII, and implied that they would vote for him in return for indirect assurances that Domenico Tardini, an experienced administrator and a Curial traditionalist, would be appointed Secretary of State. Replied Roncalli: "Eminences, one could not fail to take into consideration a man of such abilities." Soon thereafter, Roncalli was Pope and Tardini the Secretary of State...
...intact, but deepened, enriched. From Aeschylus and Camus he drew a sort of Christian stoicism and fatalism: a conviction that man could not escape his destiny, but that this did not relieve him of the responsibility of fulfilling his own best self . . . Life was a sequence of risks. To fail to meet them was to destroy a part of oneself...