Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of great turmoil at home, the U.S. people discovered that their Government had, at last, a working foreign policy. It was not a perfect policy; it had not yet been translated into success. It was a policy formed in response to events, in defensive opposition to the dark self-interest of Russia. It still groped for specific solutions. But in outline and intent it was there...
...Paris] Council was not a success in gaining agreement upon several key questions. . . . Eastern communism and Western democracy were unable, for the time being, to see eye to eye in most of these considerations...
Wealth & Worship. "The interconnection," says Orwell, "between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched...
...Defense. Farrell enthusiasts, on the contrary, will stoutly insist that out of Farrell's graceless prose emerges a true and important period picture. The subject: Manhattan of the flamboyant '20s-which the late Scott Fitzgerald saw from the peak of success, and which Chicago-born James T. Farrell sees from the bottom of the barrel...
Final Fate. What Novelist Farrell has achieved is an involved, painstaking chronicle of one kind of city life. He has also tried, without much imagination or success, to express his disgust at the power of money over human destinies...