Word: striver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to Hercules that Arnold was a striver. Hercules had no small dose of Prometheanism himself, even for his 20 years, although he sometimes thought he would be happier with a house in the suburbs, kids, maybe a Cuisinart, but no novel burning inside him. Hercules wondered if Arnold missed the bourgeois mellow life...
...beckoning greensward of suburbia. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) and two later collections of essays treated these and other national preoccupations comically but gently. She did not topple idols but admired them from a safe distance. Her pose was that of the indefatigable but bumbling striver, chirping away about her supposed inability to stage a dinner party, cope with preternaturally wisecracking children or conform to the feminine image conveyed in glossy women's magazines. If any malice was in her, she kept it out of her prose...
...Daley climbed from night-school striver to feared duke is the lesser part of Eugene Kennedy's Himself! Kennedy is more interested in his subject's mentality and soul and in political hierarchy. For this exploration the author is aptly qualified: he was a Catholic priest for 22 years, still serves as a psychology professor at Loyola University of Chicago, and has a sense of the Irish American tribe that only genes can provide...
Unlike his fellow passengers on the 7:58 from Welton, Conn., Howard Carew is no middle-class striver. He commutes to a corporate job in Manhattan each day all right, but he has long since decided that the rat race is tedious, unrewarding and-most important-unnecessary to his survival. Howard does have a vocation, however. He lies for fun and profit...
...protege and became an important functionary. His decade of influence was an eventful one on Capitol Hill, and Baker was able to participate in legislative history while enriching himself through private business dealings. The scandal that broke in 1963 instantly converted his status from that of all-American striver to one of cuff-linked corruptor. Last week, four years after his conviction for income tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the Government and theft, he began a one-to three-year prison term. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington bureau chief, found Baker remarkably mellow before parting with his freedom. Sidey...