Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking note of the Gen Ed program, the guide says that "the college seeks to preserve the integrity of liberal education in undergraduate years from pressures for early specialization." But, it adds, "it does not always succeed...
...succeed him, Johnson named Gardner Ackley, 49, a former University of Michigan economics professor who has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisers since 1962. To fill the vacancy left by Ackley's move up, Johnson picked Arthur Okun, a Yale economist and since 1961 a CEA staff member...
...season of the big thaw-the melting of the $10 million glacier of box-office ice, which is Broadway's term for ticket scalpers' profits. But last week Manhattan's District Attorney arrested nine ticket salesmen on charges of scalping. Tickets to How to Succeed were selling for $20 apiece, and " the scalpers were even dealing in ducats for the lowly New York Mets...
...that are still primarily geared to restraint. The consensus is that involuntary admission should be extended to nondangerous persons only where hospitals are fully equipped to treat early symptoms. On the other hand, state hospitals are allowed to discharge patients without court intervention. In many places, nondangerous patients who succeed in going over the hill and staying free for a year are considered discharged, on the theory that they must have come to terms with society...
Scenarist Harold Pinter and Director Jack Clayton (Room At The Top) show proper scorn for the easy tricks of melodrama. Their unsentimental aim is to take a marriage apart and nail up the bleeding pieces for honest scrutiny. Often as not, they succeed, finding lethal words and crisp images to express the timeless battle that Author Mortimer describes as "men and women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion...