Word: succeeded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sorry tactics indeed. Cussler's book doesn't even pass as good satire--his humor is too leaden and his heroes are not appealing enough to succeed as caricatures of a frequently caricatured genre. Stuck in a no-man's land between the superbly serious thrillers of John LeCarre and the outlandishly clever spy fantasies of Ian Fleming, Raise the Titanic! flounders along its muddily mediocre...
...human nature, he might learn from the animal world: the wolf is placated by the tiger, not by the hummingbird. What we need now is not arms reduction but a massive arms buildup on our side of such magnitude that the Russians will come to realize they will not succeed in their attempt to rule the world...
...colleges. Indeed, most of the recognized leaders of today's women's movement are alumnae of women's colleges who credit their alma maters for shaping their feminism. Graduates of these schools who are public officials or corporate officers--in greater numbers than women from coeducational schools--did not succeed against de facto or de jure discrimination by being ladylike. Such education is hardly a failure...
...advantage, it seems to me, of single sex education for women, is that it exposes women to positive role models and encourages them to succeed. Until coeducational institutions like Harvard/Radcliffe have more equal numbers of men and women professors and professionals, until their budgets reflect an equal commitment to male and female athletic activities, until there is equal respect, encouragement, and opportunity for the achivements of women students, the option of women's colleges must be maintained. Elisabeth Griffith Fellow, Institute of Politics John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government
...even the Loeb's large space and advanced technical equipment. Ayrton has been conducting a production seminar for the entire cast in order to prevent any catastrophes. With this class and the expertise of professionals Bill Rynders designing the set and Marcia Dixcy Carr the costumes, this version should succeed in compressing the agonies of War and Peace into two and a half hours even better than the Monarch notes...