Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg...
...armed with a platoon of pro prospects, Cozza prepares for the biggest challenge of his coaching career. He admits Harvard is tough: "any team with a kicker [Rich Szaro] who has trouble deciding which foot to use from the 35-yard line has got to be tough." But Yale, he believes, is tougher...
...Succeed details the rise of one J. Pierrepont Finch from nowhere to family and fortune, aided by a get-rich-quick book plus a bravely installed deus ex machina. This time around, one Pope Brock gives life to Finch, and he does so with a modicum of class. Brighter lights, on the other hand, shine to every side, not the least of which is Timothy Hall as J. B. Biggley, the boss of World-Wide Wickets where Finch is employed. Hall handles a considerably larger portion of the show's laughs than did Rudy Vallee in the B'way original...
Certainly this exercise has value. History contains a rich catalogue of loser statements, whose authors can be ranked according to the sportsmanship code and assigned appropriate moral victories. Even so, the loser himself well knows that he remains a loser; only by heroic mental gyrations can the also-ran restage the race in his favor. Obviously, triumph and defeat are defined by society rather than the individual. If a Ted Williams bats .400, for instance, the grandstand regards a .300 batter as a loser?and so does...
...hotel room!") His father, James O'Neill, a famous romantic actor of the day. was giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter of a century was to stunt his growth as a performer while it made him a rich man. In recovering from the aftereffects of Eugene's birth, his mother, who had hoped for a daughter, became addicted to morphine-a tragic accident for which his older brother Jamie held Eugene half responsible...