Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decent Character. His father was a bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
Science & Soul-Wrestle. At Cambridge, he was "a complete failure in the lab" but a success at theory: "Quantum mechanics had just begun to come into existence. It was a very exciting time in physics. Anyone could just get in there and have fun." At Cambridge, Oppenheimer met some of the leaders in the fellowship of physics-such men as Max Born, Paul Dirac, and Niels Bohr ("It would be hard to exaggerate how much I venerate Bohr...
...cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...
...became an invalid at 19 and died at 24. Until his death at 40, Poe's life had an appalling consistency of trouble-brief periods of success followed by long years of misery, quarrels with one after another of his backers, tigerlike leaps on his fellow poets for plagiarism, mud-slinging campaigns with rival editors. He drank, and at times took opium, stopped drinking whenever his work went well. Yet in each serious battle his enemies raked up the old stories, and in these letters Poe is constantly admitting his guilt and explaining that he has reformed...
...really use the Houses, this has all been fine. But so far the one great block to the success of the Plan has been that the Houses have not been able to bring together enough of their residents. A large number of men have not cared to enter Houses activities, either because they belong to a social club which draws their allegiance, or because they simply aren't interested. The second group is the largest, and the Houses have not attracted these men because of a variety of little and big reasons...