Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES is an imitation of past successes, with a plot from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure borrowed from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Jerry Orbach and Marian Mercer turn in the best performances of the evening...
...school objected to his returning to school after the accident, Hal's mother learned Braille herself and tutored Hal at home until the school would accept him back in normal classes. Hal is extremely glad that his parents refused to send him to blind school: "They [blind schools] do succeed in giving you more mobility, but they don't prepare you for being out socially in the sighted world. I have seen several students from Perkins who couldn't take college because they weren't prepared to live with sighted people. You learn to live with it in a public...
...that the principle of free speech for everybody is inviolate. Under certain circumstances it is perfectly right and proper to curtail free speech. When George Wallace spoke at Dartmouth, students did everything in their power to try to stop him. As it turned out they had sufficient power to succeed in preventing him from speaking. At a Southern school they might not have had enough. It is all a question of power. Should an "ungenuine" man -- and there are many of these around despite the basic goodness of man -- acquire power there would be no defense against his maranding...
...staged-inevitably-as a "This Is Your Life" show. The 9,000 rooters who packed Anaheim's convention center were treated to recollections of Nixon's youth by everyone from Speech Teacher H. Lynn Sheller, who told of the future President's "tremendous desire to succeed and to compete," to 92-year-old Ella Furnas, who was introduced as the first person to hold Nixon when he was born in Yorba Linda 56 years ago this week. Did he cry? Recalled Mrs. Furnas: "He just quarreled...
...Secretary of the Air Force, Seamans will succeed Harold Brown, a nuclear physicist...