Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence is the desire to succeed...
Students who are failing and their instructors must both overcome their fears of asking questions--the "Harvard Syndrome"--if those students want to succeed, participants of a Harvard-Danforth teaching workshop concluded yesterday...
...style is a lot like belonging to a finals club: After fussing and fiddling with your personality and habits, you are somehow elevated to a new position in life. What Crisp and Carroll try to demonstrate is a method for turning style into substance. Can they really hope to succeed in proving that black is white...
...GROWN, low-budget filmmakers rarely create seamless art--work which reveals talent within the limits of a small budget. Anna Thomas, the producer-director-writer of The Haunting of M sets out to prove that a stylish ghost story can be produced inexpensively. Although her attempt does not really succeed, Thomas displays considerable promise within the limits of her failure...
HIGH BUDGET FILMS often substitute extravagant endings for meaningful ones, distracting, rather than satisfying us. Some, like the Bond films, require extravagant endings to satisfy the suspense. Thomas has picked a genre which requires not extravagance, but skill. Yet she supplies neither. This ghost story can not succeed without an effective ending, one in which the ghost and its victim confront each other squarely. In The Haunting of M, the ghost is never vanquished, merely disappointed by Marianna. Thomas ending seems muted in its Victorian delicacy. Marion, wrapped in such timeless wrath, should be less amenable to the coquettish defenses...