Word: successful
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...Secret of Success. These ideas were set forth in the 1848 Manifesto and developed in Das Kapital and other children of Karl Marx's mind. The most interesting thing about these ideas is their success in the teeth of developments proving that Marx's main assumptions were wrong. He assumed, for example, that the spectacular poverty of industrial workers of his day would spread and deepen. The capitalist philosophers, who predicted rising living standards, were right. A hundred years after the Manifesto, however, the class struggle is sharper in spite of the fact that the living standard...
That is the secret of Marx's success. The results may not be what Marx intended. In many countries, notably Britain, the consciousness of poverty results in a drive toward leveling, rather than toward revolution. The Machine is controlled in the interest of reducing the prosperity and power of the "exploiting classes," rather than in the interest of abundance. Economic initiative, instead of being restricted by capitalist greed, is in danger of being fettered by proletarian envy...
This week, unable even to enter Kim's Korea, the U.N. Commission was ready to throw its problem, right back at Lake Success, ask U.N.'s Little Assembly what to do. And in North Korea, Kim was rushing the creation of a Soviet puppet government which might claim to speak for all Korea-while the Little Assembly was still talking...
Peter Grimes, by Britain's gifted young Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16), was unquestionably a success-the most successful new opera the Met had put on in years. It was not, however, the success it had been in Europe. The Met had lavished great care on it: the chorus sang well, Emil Cooper's orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult...
...critics generally agreed that the opera was a success, but in spite of the Met's staging...