Word: succeeding
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...those who are reclassified as blacks ever succeed in reversing the decision. An appeal to a special board costs $28, and involves exhaustive and sometimes humiliating questioning ("Why are your lips so thick?"). Coloreds almost never object formally to being reclassified as white, because of the social privileges they gain, and in many cases actually petition to have their racial status upgraded. Before reaching a decision, officials interrogate the applicant's longtime friends, employers, landlords, but never reveal to the petitioner what has been said about...
...succeed Anderson, President Kennedy named Admiral David Lamar McDonald, 56, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. A member of the Annapolis class of '28, McDonald has served as an aircraft-carrier commander (Mindoro and Coral Sea), as director of air warfare in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and as deputy assistant chief of staff at SHAPE headquarters in Europe. In July 1961, he took over from Admiral Anderson as commander of the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet, a job that McDonald saw as that of "a kind of roving ambassador of good will." Last month...
Such is the style of Antonioni. He presents us with men and women who cannot succeed in a private love and enter society only to find themselves under constant surveillance by great crowds of prying bystanders. In privacy, there is emptiness; in society the emptiness is exposed...
Sophomoric Sycophants. Sir Frederick Ashton, slated to succeed Dame Ninette de Valois as the Royal Ballet's director, knew that everyone from Verdi to Garbo had taken a whack at Dumas' story since it first appeared in 1848. He redistilled it in his own mind into a prologue and four concentrated scenes. Still he could not decide on the music. Then he heard Liszt's B-minor sonata. To most classicists, the piece is sadly second-rate, but it was the answer to Ashton's yearning. He assigned the orchestration to Humphrey Searle, got Cecil Beaton...
Susskind claims that when he wanted to discuss President Kennedy's physical fitness program, Korn said, "I've got too many Vic Tanny commercials already." When Susskind wanted to collect six college graduates voted most likely to succeed, Korn said (says Susskind), "Who the hell is interested in kids?" How about four escapees from East Berlin? "Too sentimental...