Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle over who would succeed Mansfield was already joined last week. The Democratic whip, West Virginian Robert C. Byrd, has expressed interest in the leadership post, and Maine's Edmund Muskie has announced that he will seek it. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey might also land the job next January, should something more important down Pennsylvania Avenue not come his way. Ironically, Humphrey was the man whom the modest Mansfield had proposed for the post when it became vacant...
...over a period of years," says San Francisco Federal Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli. Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions. Habeas corpus is "an important psychological right," argues Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, even though "the number of prisoners who succeed is infinitesimal." Nelson Kempsky of California's department of corrections agrees: "Increasing access to the courts has not made it more difficult to run prisons. In fact, it has served as a safety valve...
...himself from A Mirror for Witches, a historical novel by Esther Forbes. The libretto is as cluttered with conflicts as an O'Neill play, but it does not have half the dramatic impact. This comes as something of a surprise. Floyd's creed is that opera can succeed today only if the composer pays as careful attention to plot as if he were writing a play: the audience must believe the story...
...cost-benefit study of his life," as one student put it, remains to be seen. Many students at Harvard refuse to view Pavlovich as a common felon. One friends says he feels Spiro proved dramatically that "it was unnecessary to go the prep school, Ivy route in order to succeed at Harvard." Meanwhile, a few business students sport "Free Monica Cabot" T-shirts and have written a case study on her. Up at the Law School, the inevitable Spiro jokes are incorporated in the school's annual show...
...serious student dreams of forgetting test answers; the supersalesman of sample cases that will not open; the victorious general of gum balls in his muskets. In order to succeed, one must dream of failure. This new off-Broadway play by John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is about a desperate playwright named Bing Ringling (William Atherton). He is too busy writing flops to dream. The critical notices for his latest efforts are on the order of, "The next time we read this author's name it should be on the obituary page...