Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor naturally wants to improve the girl's grasp of fundamental principles, to insure that the knowledge she acquires will be a permanent protection against the chaos of experience. But his pupil is wholly deficient in logical capacity. The professor's efforts to impart the elements of mathematics only succeed in confusing her and stifling her enthusiasm. The girl is unable to go beyond simple addition, in spite of the professor's warning that all of life, philosophy and civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such...
...SUCCESSO. As an ambitious young executive who sheds wife, friends and integrity en route from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap, Vittorio Gassman demonstrates, sometimes hilariously, sometimes chillingly, how-to-succeed-Italian-style...
...merely South Viet Nam. It is Asia. Their objective is not the fulfillment of Vietnamese nationalism. It is to erode and to discredit America's ability to help prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia." Speaking slowly and emphatically, he added: "In this domination they shall never succeed. And I am continuing, and I am increasing the search for every possible path to peace...
...Architect Victor Gruen, who has designed eight New Towns himself: "Reston is the most courageous effort toward the building of a New Town yet undertaken. It is my fervent hope, and I am sure all progressive architects and planners share this hope, that the New Town of Reston will succeed. If so, this would mark a great breakthrough in community planning in our country...
David A. Benjamin '66, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., will succeed Dean Peckham as captain of the tennis team...