Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprisingly popular book in Italy (a 5,000 first printing has been almost sold out) is 913 pages long, costs $11.30, and is directed mainly to theology professors. Its success may have something to do with its title: Il Peccato...
...hospitals are generally even more reluctant than the states to unlock doors, for fear of damaging incidents and lawsuits. Yet in San Francisco, at the opposite extreme in size from the giant state hospitals, a tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system with outstanding success. "When we speak of patients as being 'locked up," says the psychiatrist in charge, Dr. Anthony J. Errichetti Jr., "what we really mean is 'locked out'-we are using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient in seclusion...
What worries U.S. visitors more than the specific achievements of Russian science is its momentum. The best young people flock into science-not only the dedicated students but also ambitious young men merely in search of success and status. "This is not surprising," said a Harvard professor. "There is no private business that they might enter. The practice of law cannot be very appealing. What remains but science? In science a man can have an attractive living standard, and he does not have to commit himself politically...
...Paradise), and it became one of the biggest hits of 1958. It was followed by another low-cost smash called The Lovers, directed by Louis Malle, 27. Suddenly, the New Wave was rolling, and on the crest of it dozens of ambitious young cinéastes went surfboarding to success. In the past twelve months, according to the French Film Office, at least 30 young men without previous experience in film direction have gone into production with full-length films, and already half a dozen of them have achieved both critical acclaim and the franc approval of the public. Among...
...charged the plan was a premeditated attempt to interfere with the success of the forthcoming negotiations on the Berlin question...