Word: succeeded
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Turow says a need to succeed makes him particularly vulnerable to a false god, ambition. "I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell," he recounts. "I found it an intense, in many ways devastating, experience. A very serious book. Very polished. I still read the prose with great pleasure. I came here feeling that, for whatever reasons, I'd failed as a writer, so I wanted to do something well. I wanted to start in a new field and feel successful with it." The hallmark of doing something well, he adds...
...next phase, the dancers attempt to discard their constraints actively. In the second photograph, Clara Maxwell '80 symbolically sheds the beauty that restricts her by ruffing up her hair. In the third section, the dancers succeed in casting off their chains for a short time, and pretty, free-flowing forms predominate...
Unfortunately, Wilkins and the Bach Society did not entirely succeed in the difficult task they set for themselves. The strings again played sweetly, particularly in the quiet opening and closing sections, and the solo wind passages were impeccably performed. But too often the idyllic atmosphere of the music was disrupted by unnecessary heaviness in the lower instruments, and Wilkins's cautious, fastidious approach to the work detracted from its Wagnerian sweep and passion. Hence, although the performance was as precise as one could wish, it might have been more inspiring. As an ambitious attempt to perform a very difficult work...
Finally, the U.S. should announce, and carry out, a program of aggressively buying up dollars, borrowing all the foreign currency it can from central banks to make the purchases. Such intervention alone would not shore up the dollar for long; it would succeed only if backstopped by effective energy and anti-inflation policies. But it probably is essential to break the psychology of fear that has gripped exchange markets...
Curry, the team's second leading scorer with a total of 250 points, will succeed present team captain Katherine Fulton. Fulton yesterday called Curry "the most consistent and strongest player on the team...