Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Lolita, Barry Lyndon is adapted from a book. Thackeray's Barry Lyndon, like his far greater creation, Becky Sharp, is a social climber at heart. Thackeray's attitude to figures of this kind is a mixture of sympathy and a consciousness that they must not be allowed to succeed. Thus Barry ends his life as a poor invalid in Ireland and Becky as a tattered card sharp making the rounds of tawdry German courts. Yet some sympathy always remains for these characters, either because--like Becky--they are so much brighter and more intelligent than the world around them...
Carter's first appointment to the new administration was fellow member Cyrus R. Vance to succeed Henry A. Kissinger '50 as Secretary of State. Vance was Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert S. McNamara and defended the escalation of bombing in Vietnam. Vance, in turn, has appointed three other commission member as his chief deputies--Cooper, corporate lawyer Warren Christopher, and Lucy Wilson Benson, former president of the League of Women Voters and a director of the military-research-oriented Mitre Corporation, which does military research and development...
...refuted on every page. Falsehood has lots of advantages. There are a lot more forms of it than there are forms of truth. An awful lot of truths are not very pleasant, and don't make people happy. The first requirement of an idea that's going to succeed is that it make people happy, not that it be true...
This plan, when coupled with the task force's suggestions to allow rising sophomores to transfer and to assure that some balance be maintained in the Houses, might succeed in bailing out the present system. But with the "no-choice" system must come the improvement of Quad facilities, including the construction of the important Observatory Hill athletic complex, and expanded shuttle bus service, as the task force outlines...
...tense as ever. In Holland some married priests continue to wink at Vatican rules and act as ministers in liberal parishes. Attendance at Mass has plummeted 50% in a decade, and in 1973 only seven diocesan priests were ordained. Willebrands has ranked high in speculation on candidates to succeed Paul VI. If he can unify the Dutch church, he might well deserve a promotion...