Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which this occurs must be understood. It is not that black students are incapable. Rather prejudicial treatment by professors and advisors, the irrelevant or racist content of courses and the day-to-day struggle to survive within an alienating environment all make it more difficult for blacks to succeed...
That'll Be the Day has mostly the music in common with any of these. It is an intelligent, rueful attempt to get at the roots of pop culture by dramatizing the shaky beginnings of one musician's career. Director Claude Whatham and Writer Ray Connolly also succeed nicely at something that has hardly ever been tried: to say and to show just how rock gave a voice to a generation...
...money in political campaigns, Miki resigned as Deputy Premier and shrewdly began cultivating his image as a reformer. Considering the complex economic and political problems that confront Japan, though, Miki will need more than hara and an ability to perceive his nation's moodo if he expects to succeed as Premier...
Attorney General William Saxbe was nominated last week by President Ford to succeed Moynihan next month...
...cocktails, you are providing the impetus to do so. This community-sanctioned violence is a Macho Proving Ground. When a group of men can't flip a car over on its end, a girl in the crowd yells out, "You Pussies! You can't get it up." They then succeed; and this gutted vehicle, battered by their hands, is heaved into the sky for one brief moment before crashing back down upon its belly. The young boys of 12 or so are the most earnestly destructive here, throwing rocks and bottles with great perserverance. The older...