Word: successful
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...which he 1) received and 2) declined the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature. The nature of Pasternak's achievement is one that does not lend itself to headlines, but is nevertheless of the deepest concern to journalism. Says TIME: "Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the 'Zhivago miracle,' but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger. He is a man without weapons, wielding 'the irresistible power of unarmed truth...
...means of implementing the principle, explained by Dulles in a San Francisco speech last week, that freedom itself-especially freedom expressed in economic and social progress and military confidence-is a force that can and will prevail. That principle is the basis of U.S. cold war policy. And the success of that policy, particularly as expressed in burgeoning West Germany, is the reason Nikita Khrushchev wants Berlin...
...limbo land where there is no war; truth becomes the latest Administration pronouncement. And by an equally grotesque twist of history, liberalism in America has become an almost irrational attachment to a semi-religious doctrine. In his genial, quietly direct, and assuring way, Bowles has reminded us that our success in building a peaceful world depends on our faith in our principles of justice and humanity, on our truthful regard for the dictates of a procedural, not substantive, liberalism which encompasses a multitude of people whose dream, like ours, is to be at peace with each other...
...failure as an artist is one of these factors: he had been condemned to dreary poverty and drudging jobs for many years. His eventual "success" comes only when he sells his play--and himself--to a greasy promoter who cuts out all the idealism and long speeches (two constituents, of course, of Osborne's own power), and changes the play's name to Telephone Tart. Another factor is his rejection by Mrs. Elliot's sister Ruth, the only other character in the play who thinks and talks and understands on his level...
...myth of security has supplemented the myth of success, according to the University Professor, and the religious resurgence must resist the "lure of security" if it is to provide the ability to ask the "radical question of meaning...