Word: luck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Real life provided the Rothschilds with too much of everything-luck, power, possessions. As fiction, their story lacks only one thing: suspense. The Rothschilds played every trick; they also won every trick. Inside one generation, the founder's five sons resembled a hand whose jeweled fingers covered the map of Europe. In succeeding generations, while thrones toppled and nations faced bankruptcy, the Rothschilds went upward, always upward, and on. Their story becomes a magnificent seven-generation dinner slightly drowsy from its own great wines...
...last week, gives persuasive answers to both questions. In it is a little girl, perhaps sent upstairs for an hour of penance, who dimly but fearfully perceives the end of her innocence. The picture has charm and-in the dark room, the vacuous expression-a touch of horror. Without luck's greatest blessings, the photographer who wanted to duplicate the painting would wait (for the clear light, for the tilt of the head) longer than it took the artist to learn to paint. And if the explicit drawing had been lost in abstractionist broad-brushing, its power would have...
...Lucky Man. In Japanese. Konosuke Matsushita's name means "lucky man beneath the pines," but his success owes more to pluck than luck. While he was still a child, his parents and five of his seven brothers and sisters died in rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because...
Before the varsity game at 3 p.m., luck-lustre freshman teams from Harvard and Pinceton will clash before the alumni gathering...
...pastors play up the tithers' tax benefits: federal laws allow the taxpayer to deduct up to 30% of gross income as church charity. There are a few ministers who hint at even greater financial benefits. A classic example occasionally cited: Oilman Charles Page, who when down on his luck was told by a Salvation Army lassie that he would prosper if he tithed. Starting by giving her 15? out of his last dollar, Page promised to tithe, eventually struck oil. "I couldn't miss," he used to say after he had made his pile. "I was in partnership...