Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe so. But when the demolition is done with so little finesse, something more is needed. Perhaps judgement on Kozol the social observer/social activist should be withheld until his next book appears. But to succeed, the new book will have to be many times more perceptive than The Night is Dark, and will also have to explain why he wrote this anomalous, unenlightening book...
Rita E. Hauser, a 1956 graduate of the Law School, is one of several women President Ford is considering to succeed Justice William O. Douglas on the Supreme Court, The New York Times reported yesterday...
...wedge toward active killing of terminal patients." Ramsey regrets that the Quinlans took their case to court for the opposite reason. He thinks the judge may be forced to rule against them and thus set a precedent in favor of nonstop treatment until patients "at long last succeed in dying, despite our machines...
Success, which William James called "the bitch goddess," has exerted a tripolar magnetic pull on most Americans. It is variously regarded with desire, fear and despair. The desire is to succeed. The fear is of failing to succeed. The despair is the feeling of emptiness, the loss of a rooted and perhaps better self after one has succeeded. The most distressing knowledge of all, of course, is to realize that you sought esteem in the eyes of others because you lacked it in your...
...together, the two campaigns for "economic democracy" point toward a major transformation of Swedish society. Whether the transformation will succeed is another matter, one that depends upon developments here and in the rest of Western Europe, as well as Sweden. But some sort of fundamental change seems assured...