Word: successes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more unified ball club this summer, deeper at every position lacking internal squabbles and peeves, and collectively more healthy. Only Carlton Fisk dangles on the injury list like a dark cloud, and his availability during the next two months could be crucial to the success...
...difficult it had been to raise $8.4 million for the building, with second down and $1.4 million still to go. "Two years ago, we were literally back on our own goal line," said Ford, "and we had a long row to hoe. Now we are on the doorstep of success." The Ford library, when completed in two years, will contain 14 million documents, 700,000 ft. of film and 380,000 photographs. One of the documents: a copy of the proclamation Old 48 signed in 1974 granting presidential clemency to Whittier College No. 12, Richard Nixon...
Divorce is major surgery. Even if the operation is a seeming success, the patient is never quite the same. The prevalence of divorce has had an incalculable effect on the fabric of U.S. society, but our playwrights rarely broach the subject. A notable exception is Oliver Hailey. His Father's Day examines the scar tissue of pain; yet his play is saturated with wry, bitchy, gallant and sex-laced humor, the kind of hilarity that rises from the ashes of despair...
...time he was 60, and despite his success and fame, Michelangelo had turned moody, irascible, feeling himself harassed by worry and his powers waning. Yet he was already launched into the six-year labor of creating the Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. It was a tumultuous design, here embodied in a sketch dynamic with the swirl of falling bodies and tortured shapes of the agonized damned; his earlier calm, idealized nudes were transformed into the twisted forms expressive of his own brooding sense of sin and death...