Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display in of the period have immense appeal. But the reluctance of Museum directors to loan their most popular showpieces makes the exhibition a disappointment. The exhibition contains no Vermeers and only nine Rembrandts (eight of insignificant quality). The seven paintings by Hals, though over-emphasizing his later work, succeed exceptionally well. The late Portrait of a Woman from the Saint Louis Museum, and the small Portrait of a Man are exceptionally beautiful. They both have the characteristic dark background of Hals' late canvasses, and they demonstrate the virtuosity--particularly in Portrait of a Man--of the abbreviated brush stroke...
...resources more to "clear-and-hold" operations aimed at creating secure areas, than to "search-and-destroy missions, which drive the Viet Cong out of villages one day and permit them to slip back the next." But he fails to note that no clear-and-hold strategy can succeed as long as guerrillas are permitted to terrorize the countryside-and it is the search-and-destroy sweeps that keep them...
...short, we are involved in Vietnam because we know from painful experience that the minimum condition for order on our planet is that aggression must not be permitted to succeed. For when it does succeed, the consequence is not peace, it is the further expansion of aggression...
...reputation that far outstrips its size (1,764 undergraduates, 2,038 grad students). Its fame lured Milton Eisenhower-former head of Kansas State and Penn State and adviser to four U.S. Presidents-to its presidency in 1956. Last week Johns Hopkins landed a seasoned scholar-diplomat to succeed him: Lincoln Gordon, 53, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
...true center of interest was the Met debut of British Conductor Colin Davis. One of the world's top young maestros, Davis, along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta and the Berlin Radio Orchestra's Lorin Maazel, is among the front-running candidates to succeed Leonard Bernstein when he steps down as musical director of the New York Philharmonic...