Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home-team sympathies resigned supreme last Thursday as 40 Harvard and Radcliffe athletes signed a letter urging the administration to appoint one of two well-known Harvard administrators as director of athletics to succeed Robert B. Watson...
...short: see it. Ignore the program. It's a good production of a great comedy. The attempts to evoke the sinister do not quite succeed, because they interrupt rather than support the play's flow. They are too contrived, and we cannot accept them for long enough to have them scare us. But if you're looking for good acting, directing, and production, you can't go wrong...
...copies, prompted by a staggering 12.4% return on a subscription mail-out-far above the 2% to 3% achieved by most prospective magazines. Advertising is thin, only 4.6 pages for the first issue. But with his solid capitalization, Lopez will be comfortably solvent for months ahead. "Nuestro will succeed," he concludes. "Latinos have been ready for this magazine for years...
Segal's gall in using the same homogenized success formula is annoying. Love Story was somewhat ingenuous the first time, but this time around Segal's clearly going for the gold. In this version the style is too cute and unoriginal to succeed. But there's an even more irksome side to the Segal works for Harvard readers. Segal's portrayal of Harvard is distorted, yet it is the one that millions of Americans apparently want to believe. The syndrome is a familiar one: Segal obviously fell head over heels in love with Harvard and all its money-encrusted trappings...
...conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could no longer hold under Oregon law, having completed his second term in office...