Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with that approach is that it is often the regulars who pick up the pieces after a disaster; witness the comeback of Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s man-in-the-middle after the party's monumental 1964 drubbing. Even if the McCarthyite irregulars were to succeed in wrecking the old party structure in order to build a new one, they might also succeed in guaranteeing an eight-year White House tenancy for Richard Nixon...
Young makes no pretense of being a scholar: his bibliography consists of two learned articles on California's education code and municipal government. Nonetheless, Young was the choice to succeed Murphy, primarily because of his record as an administrator who can get along with students. Unlike Berkeley, U.C.L.A. has never had a major student rebellion. Former Chancellor Murphy, now chairman of the Los Angeles Times Mirror Co., gives Young credit for that record. He calls him "the best-qualified academic administrator in the country." The rambunctious, student-run Daily Bruin agrees; it enthusiastically supported his candidacy...
...moral and physical landscape of the U.S. middle class. Sheed relishes the ridiculous but champions the sane and normal. His protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed & Ward). When he was nine, his family moved to Torresdale, Pa., a town not unlike the setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding...
...good as his word. And he was so successful at building a Texas copy of the school he considers one of the best in the world that Stanford took particular notice. Last week Stanford paid Pitzer the ultimate compliment: it brought him to Palo Alto to succeed President I.E. Wallace Sterling, 62, who is retiring after 18 years...
...Helmholtz the music teacher says to Jim Donnini the delinquent, in an effort to explain how one might bring beauty into the world: "Love yourself and make your instrument sing about it." Though Vonnegut's performance is occasionally a little slick or a little sloppy, he does succeed in making his literary instrument sing...