Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account...
Though seriously limited by lack of experience and illness, the crew did trounce the Elis on June 1 by three boat-lengths, thus making the season a technical success regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's affair...
...year-old bachelor announcer Jack Barry went much of the credit for a new success in moppetry. He originated and conducts the Jury, made up of average youngsters whose responses to questions are unpredictable, forthright. Barry neither hogs the mike nor acts like a benevolent uncle. By putting his charges at ease before each broadcast, he gets some delightful reactions: quick indignation for obviously stupid questions, squealing giggles to unexpected answers, busy babbling when two or more youngsters try to talk at the same time, as they frequently do. Hoping to catch an even wider audience than the encyclopedia Quiz...
...carpeted stage in the Library's Coolidge auditorium, experts and plain people spoke their hopes and fears, their doubts and convictions.* There were no sound effects, no musical bridge between speakers, no corny gags. CBS thought the question of the age demanded straight answers. The program's success was due in large part to that approach-and also to one of the most painstaking preparations ever made for a single broadcast...
...through the crowd, eavesdropping on customer comment. Says he: "When I discover an artist I sit in the audience just like the public. ... If you sit 25 minutes without squirming and your eyes and ears are still in his direction, then I personally believe that artist will be a success." In a Paris concert hall he once heard a little-known American Negro contralto, offered to sign her on the spot. Today Marian Anderson is his biggest moneymaker ($175,000 a year for herself, about $50,000 for Hurok...