Word: success
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Success had been somewhat frightening to Novelist Joseph Stanley Pennell, whose History of Rome Hanks stirred up violent opinions in 1944. "Naturally I hope my new book, Nora Beckham, will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...
...modest way, Raphael Demos is an American success story. A Greek immigrant who worked his way as a janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...
...life, there is misery as well as happiness, failure no less than success; and an education which equips us for only one side of life is certainly inadequate," writes Demos. "Life is competitive; as in sports, one man's victory is another man's defeat; there is not enough in the way of wealth, position, and honor to go around. Somebody is bound to lose...
...History teaches that success will pass, and also that failure will pass; that progress is never secure...
...Tragedy] underlines the truth that human hopes must measure themselves against unfeeling necessity . . . Tragic wisdom is the knowledge of evil . . . By purging man of the original sin of self-sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and compassionate . . so that he can love without craving, strive without fretfulness, rise to success without falling into pride, fail without losing heart...