Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever "success" I have obtained, I obtained it by sweat, work, tears and hard determination. I can only believe that your "critic" is a disappointed would-be writer, whose "delicate" prose has not been appreciated by the American people, and so he is consumed with envy and spite...
...only the "stunted" in intelligence, he insults the vast body of American book-buyers and readers who, by the evidence of their letters to me, have bought and read my books. Your "critic," too, will amuse and please only the few of my personal enemies who resent my "success," and envy me, as does this gentle gentleman...
...aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menotti, has written operas for chamber orchestra and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lucretia," is on a Chicago stage now. If it comes to New York next year and is as much of a success as "The Medium" (still going strong on ticket sales), a new and happy method for reviving the art of opera-writing may have been discovered...
...inevitable. 37. Meanwhile, at Lake Success, Gromyko used the veto to kill Britain's attempt to fix blame on Albania...
...this pattern of success, President "Pop" Shapiro had a seven-word formula neatly printed on a small sign on his oak-stained desk: "Fools invent fashions-wise men follow them...