Word: prospering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people, offering clues to the national unconscious. Superman's enormous popularity might be looked upon as signaling the beginning of the end for the Horatio Alger myth of the self-made man. In the modern world, he seems to say, only the man with superpowers can survive and prosper. Still, though comics are indeed a popular art form, it is going a bit far to compare, as Critic Maurice Horn does, Gasoline Alley to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Little Orphan Annie to the works of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. As Mammy Yokum might say: "Some folks...
...guess then I've backed myself into a rave. A curious position, indeed, since Furth's object is so designedly a minor one. Twigs should prosper from its two weeks here in Boston--for, at present, it's not without moments that are almost too transparently simple as well as two scenes (I and III) a trifle underdeveloped. But then Twigs asks so little from life, what it accomplishes it ends up accomplishing in a very big sort...
...poor, underdeveloped countries like India, more population surely means more poverty. But once a society has begun to industrialize, people themselves create wealth as they develop an increasingly elaborate exchange of goods and services. Thus both England and Germany prosper even though they have a population density greater than that of India. And the Japanese are demonstrating that the world's most thickly inhabited nation may also become its richest. Looking ahead, Professional Prophet Herman Kahn optimistically foresees a world population that will double by 2000 but a world economy that will grow fivefold...
...cited the success of the co-ed living program of the last two years as evidence that "the new Harvard-Radcliffe relationship should prosper...
...dozen men, some of them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed 40 people...