Word: success
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning to the Geneva foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, Nixon added gravely: "In order to have peace. Mr. Prime Minister, there must be a sitting down at the table and a discussion in which each sees the points of the other. The world looks to you for the success of the Geneva conference, [even though] we have great respect for [Russian Foreign Minister Andrei] Gromyko, who looks like me but is better looking...
...incentive for success has replaced the traditional family goals in the Soviet Union according to "The Soviet Citizen," a new book written by two Harvard professors and published by the Harvard University Press. The authors are Professor Alex Inkeles, a sociologist in the Department of Social Relations, and Professor Raymond A. Bauer, a social psychologist at Harvard Business School...
Across the U.S., Winston has built housing valued at more than $250 million. He has $112 million worth abuilding, including groups of 3,500 apartments in Bayside. L.I., 1,500 apartments in Palatine, Ill. His formula for success is to build houses fast and in quantity, offer people something they could not duplicate for the price ($8,490 to $29.000), and, most of all. "build up to their dreams" by offering luxuries and interiors usually found in costlier houses...
Tennis, Everyone? Author Golden has a Negro bartender-chauffeur now and a packed lecture schedule, but otherwise seems little altered by his success (or by the disclosure last year that he had once served a prison term for mail fraud). Golden believes he is successful because not only Jews but others can identify themselves with his stories: "Until now, writers of immigrant literature treated it all like a case history. Some were frankly ashamed of it. They made out like it was mysterious, and something the quicker over with the better. I came along and told the same story without...
Refined Voluptuary. The Satyricon-whose title may refer both to satire and to the customary activity of satyrs-is probably the work of Gaius Petronius. Nero's "arbiter of elegance." of whom Tacitus wrote: "He spent his days in sleeping, his nights in the enjoyment of life. That success which most men achieve by dint of hard work, he won by laziness. Yet unlike those prodigals who waste themselves and their substance alike, he was not regarded as either a spendthrift or a debauchee, but rather as a refined voluptuary...