Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Success & Suicide...
...those scores of students who are dumped in undesirable organizations or left altogether out in the cold. Rather it is the hundreds who happily make the respectable and especially the most desirable clubs on the street. It is they who have consented without apparent compunctions to build their prestige, success, and social contentment on the hypocrisy, mendacity, inhumanity, servility, pettiness and sheer unreason upon which Princeton's club system and Bicker procedure are obviously reared. It's the oldest truth in creation that there is evil in the universe and it is as a realistic schooling in the world...
...great extent, the Crimson's success will depend on its ability to block out Fulcomer and Belz under the offensive backboard. On defense the Tigers play a man-to-man, which means that Fulcomer will probably cover Bryant Danner, whose rebounding has been spotty this season...
Charles Street's Blood Wedding remains an intriguing exercise in experimental drama. And if it proves somewhat less successful than their previous efforts--and surely every experiment can't be a success--it is still a highly competent and provocative production...
When Senior died, Junior stepped naturally into his shoes as Grand Old Man of Paris. Yet he continued as "the sworn foe of adultery" with increasing success until his late 60s, when he fell in love with Henriette Escalier, a married woman young enough to be his granddaughter. She became his mistress; after she managed to divorce her husband and Dumas' wife died, they were married, five months before Dumas' death (1895). "I have sometimes seriously thought of entering a monastery," he groaned sometime before his last marriage...