Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington conference would have been far less of a success if it had stopped there. Time and time again. President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles drove home their point that the full resources-not just armies and weapons-of all free nations must be marshaled against Communism. They found in Harold Macmillan a man of like mind. ("Such a conference," said one of the participants, "never would have been possible with either Anthony Eden or Winston Churchill.") And as the men at the Washington conference talked, they found their spirits surging with enthusiasm to make the total alliance a reality...
Also a great credit was Williams's success in making the surrealistic fantasy, Adventures in the Skin Trade, not only clear but very, very funny. A lovely thing in both script and performance is Who Do You Wish Was With Us? And Thomas's description of his enormous uncle and the annual masculine booze outing is delightful, as indeed are the slightly self-conscious Reminiscences of a Schoolmaster and The Fight, a very amusing tale of the artist emerging from the child...
These lithographs are only vignettes, yet they are wonderfully complete. Each one has its own poetic raison d'etre, each one functions perfectly as an entity. Maillol has translated the grace and fluid volume of his sculpture to the lithographer's stone with such success because he is equally as fine a draughtsman as a sculptor...
...Crimson emphasized passing in the drill possibly in deference to Navy's great success through the air in its game with Penn last week. The freshmen set Pennsylvania defenses, the junior varsity simulated Quaker offenses, and both the A and B squads worked against each team...
...will be orgies of reports, conferences and initialing of each other's papers. After a strenuous day of memo-passing, A will still miss the commuter's special, but he will reflect with "a wry smile that late hours, like gray hairs, are among the penalties of success...