Word: success
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There runs through your letter the unfortunate implication that only a group that makes lots of money is to be considered a success. Having said that the C.D.F. "laid a considerable financial egg," you go on to deduce that it has "the least successful record of all." This is a crassly materialistic view. The C.D.F., in the stature of its offerings, has been a pronounced success. And in giving Shaw's Saint Joan with Siobhan McKenna it provided local theatregoers with as great a performance as the Boston area has ever witnessed...
...every delegation who brief the gathered press at Geneva were finding it harder and harder to pretend that the allies all felt as one. The French were disgusted. The Americans were inclined to break off. The British used failure of the talks (as once they had hoped to use success of them) to argue for zooming right up to the summit. It looked as if the sad diplomatic phenomenon at Geneva might last at least two weeks more...
...actor by training, Wilmenrod, 52, owes his success to his lip-smacking, butter-and-ego personality. When he was an infant, says Clemens, his finely tuned palate rejected sour bottles that adults figured were perfectly sweet. All through his years of playing the provinces, he claims to have cultivated his "sixth sense for gourmandise" (a French girl friend was his most valuable assistant). Not until he had been on the air for two years did Wilmenrod ever bother with anything as stultifying as a professional cooking course...
President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Co., whose Salem is already a mentholated success, was so affected by the sight of all this clamoring at his door that he took a drastic step for the head of a billion-dollar hierarchy. He insisted on answering his own telephone, gave battle orders that he wants to be flashed personally by even the lowliest Reynolds salesman on every development on the cigarette front...
...year-old Yukio Mishima (The Sound of Waves) has painted a vivid, quasi-existential portrait of an Outsider. He has also given his novel at least as many symbolic levels of meaning as the triple-tiered Golden Temple. In the U.S. the book is unlikely to match its Japanese success, but its underlying theme is far from insular-that beauty, and perhaps civilization itself, may inhibit and paralyze the will to live...