Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alastair Cooke as host of PBS's "Masterpiece Theater." When reached for comment, Epps said, "I feel this exciting new post is the culmination of my long, if not varied, career. I look to the future with my head held high and my hat doffed to those who will succeed...
Still, his rigidity seems to be fading. The Boston visitors include Progressives Alfred Schnittke, 53, and Sofia Gubaidulina, 56, now recognized as two of the Soviet Union's best composers. And, of course, there is Shchedrin, favored to succeed Khrennikov someday as a culture czar, who was represented by his new opera Dead Souls. A licensed radical who sacrificed his genuine talent for the status of a pampered house pet, Shchedrin once wrote sparklers like the Carmen Suite, a vibrant 1967 gloss on Bizet that will be danced later this month by his wife Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Now, perhaps metaphorically...
...pastor said he expected they would succeed in their quest for a permanent home, but he said they would not owe that success...
...include his longtime confidant James Baker, who would probably give up his stewardship of the Treasury to take over as Secretary of State. Nicholas Brady, chairman of the investment banking firm Dillon Read & Co. and a former Republican Senator from New Jersey, is a longtime Bush adviser; he might succeed Baker at the Treasury...
While The Way of the World fails as comedy and stumbles as a romance, it does succeed as a mystery: what led Spraggins to attempt such a difficult play, a play that ruined Congreve himself? Alas, history repeats itself...