Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree of political apathy in the college is astonishing and the reasons are those Ratner refused to believe could be true. Although many students may read the national newspapers, few are really aware of the wrongdoings in South Africa or elsewhere--and if they are they do fail to "have some feel for the gravity of the wrongs being committed...
...what I call the Ty Cobb theory of success. In the same year that Cobb set the record for the number of bases stolen, he also had a lot of failures. There were ten or twelve men who had better percentages of success. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure they just stop trying...
...itself. The Marshall Plan arose out of a specific juncture of event, public mood and leadership. And who could possibly guess when and how such an impelling convergence might occur again? Nobody. But it would nonetheless be hazardous to assume, if it did occur, that the American people would fail to yield their best once more...
Molly is quite unlike any play that Britain's Simon Gray has written. Seeing the work in a late dress-rehearsal phase of its world première at Spoleto, one cannot properly evaluate the drama's full potential, but cannot fail to mark a signal change of direction...
...guns may fail, the human spirit...