Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I made my first success," declared low-moaning Torchsinger Libby Holman, thinking back nearly 20 years, "I really didn't know what I was doing. I suppose my voice had a natural quality. . . ." Now, after years of on-&-off retirement, she was singing in a Manhattan nightclub. "Today, I have studied and really feel I understand . . ." said she gravely to an interviewer. "I think so few people know anything about the music that is indigenous to their own country...
...seminary for me.") During the war, serving in the Italian army, he was captured by the Germans, but escaped in women's clothes he stole from the camp show equipment. He arrived in the U.S. with eleven trunks. Says Giuseppe: "I want to make much money, have big success and stay here a long time." How about Hollywood? Says Giuseppe grandly: "I am here...
TIME is a success by the standard of the market place, and, in the fiercely competitive U.S. information market, that is not a negligible achievement. Judged professionally, by prevailing journalistic standards, it is generally conceded to do a competent, and occasionally better than competent...
That is the yes and the no of TIME'S success. This is the maybe: Along with the information it does or does not communicate...
...original sin, infecting the paradox in which man asserts his freedom against his finiteness, and complicating with a fatality of evil a destiny which man senses to be divine,.is the tissue of history. It explains why man's history, even at its highest moments, is not a success story. It yawns, like a bottomless crater, across the broad and easy avenue of optimism. It would be intolerable without faith, without hope, without love...