Word: successful
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That was a very fine article on the problem drinker [Dec. 23]. It is heartening to know, and I will frankly admit I never knew, that so many leading American companies have such excellent programs for rehabilitating alcoholics and that they are making a success of it. However, I feel that they are dealing with the effects. They should put forth the same amount of time and effort to remove the cause-provided that our churches wake up and help them as they should...
Disregard for law and order by the Nazis, Conant declared, hastened the collapse of the Republic. Hitler's success was due to his "plain gangster tactics." He called the new German Constitution, drawn up by French, British, and American representatives, and ratified by the German Parliament in 1948, a positive step towards establishing a democratic government...
...self-exhibition,--a long-winded parade of half-baked psychiatry and sociology. He piles up platitude upon platitude like Pelion upon Ossa--for instance, "all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus" (high school learning); there are the three things upon which--as he tells us--Freud's success is based (why three rather than thirty?) and so on. Where are the CRIMSON'S standards when it can publish such pretentious blown-up stuff? I am concerned about Harvard...
...Success was achieved on the problems presented to the machine," Friedberg said, "but I am not satisfied by the way it came about." He noted that he is as close to achieving the ultimate goals of this research "as the first man who discovered that paper sticks to a comb was to discovering radio...
...might be called "an attempt at a reportorial-interpretative, socio-economic synthesis, structurally dialectical and psycho-philosophically neo-eclectic"), but the viewpoints of the other works are neither deepened nor notably clarified. Lerner merely adopts a widely prevalent notion of the typical American as a five-goal man: 1) success, 2) prestige, 3) money, 4) power, 5) security. To achieve these goals, the American has fashioned an "open society" that is mobile, status-conscious rather than class-conscious, welfare-capitalistic, optimistic and pragmatic. According to Lerner, the U.S. has been spared such potential dangers as the tyranny of the majority...