Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rock performances, immediate and blaring, are the heart of the medium. The Beatles and Dylan succeed in spite of (and not because of) the fact that we will never get to hear them in the stark pulsating flesh. The power of the new music is precisely that it is sometimes able to transform a particular event into a permanent influence--one to blunt the hard edges that each of us carefully cultivates...
...shelve last week's resolution against the color bar, but the organization's 242 delegates passed the resolution almost unanimously. At the same time, the association installed a California gastroenterologist, Dwight Locke Wilbur, as president and elected a Manhattan insurance-company physician, Gerald Dale Dorman, to succeed Dr. Wilbur in 1969. Both men are unusually liberal, in medical terms; their selection holds promise of even broader reform of the once-mossbacked A.M.A...
...Proustian ambitions with a writer's block. He conceived of an organic body of work to be called The Voyage That Never Ends, at the heart of which would rest his one masterpiece, Under the Volcano (1947). That novel-perhaps the only story of an alcoholic ever to succeed at the level of tragedy rather than self-pity -revealed in Lowry a dark, obsessive genius that kept struggling for light. It never shone fully in his two other novels (Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic), his poems, or in the short stories (Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place) that...
...reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
...exercise in justification, McCarthy does not succeed. It is nevertheless a revealing and fascinating book, exposing its author as a man still skilled at innuendo and doublethink. Cohn employs these skills in a brief that is fat with incident and quotation-incident that is sometimes only remotely relevant, and quotation that is usually favorable. One of Cohn's own statements is devastating enough: he writes that McCarthy "bought Communism [as an issue] in much the same way as other people purchase a new automobile...