Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed conference to restructure Harvard--called by the Harvard Policy Committee--is also open to just such co-optation. The reasons I'm not too afraid of the success of that maneuver are complex. But for openers, I'm convinced of the correctness of our analysis and our ability to demonstrate this correctness to the non-aligned. And like the Protestant revolutionaries, we work harder than our adversaries, and care more passionately about the outcome of our faith. Perhaps it is our childishness...
Still, concert success has not left her visibly selfsatisfied, nor impatient with an "academic" music department. "I tasted all that while I was still in my teens," she says. "For artists going in the other direction, from study to performance, things like that can be meaningful. But finally I gave part of it up for serious study...
...simplicity so disastrous it would take me half a page to synopsize it. I will say that it concerns a lot of people hassling over sex and money and that four of the film's five degenerates lose out in the end, and the fifth gets Inga, a success of dubious distinction to say the least...
...drama into a comic nightmare. European experience underlines every speech with blood. But Americans tend to regard gangsters with nostalgic indulgence as individualistic resistance fighters against society (witness the vast popularity of Bonnie and Clyde). In the U.S., the play takes on the eerie quality of a faintly sinister success story, in which an immigrant boy from Brooklyn overcomes his bad accent and deplorable manners to achieve dominion and power over the second largest city in the nation. In the Minnesota Theatre Company's production, currently visiting Broadway, Robin Gammell is delightfully disjointed as Ui, but as a Nazi...
...piece of reporting and dramatic journalistic writing, Silence on Monte Sole is a professional success. Yet after the hundreds of dramatic reconstructions of the inhuman acts of World War II-acts whose memory is kept fresh by the knowledge of continuing inhumanity-the value of the genre itself is in doubt. The past 25 years have conclusively demonstrated that no reconstruction of human suffering, no matter how skillfully or compassionately done, can compare with the unadorned voices of the survivors, who, in autobiography and war-crimes testimony, told of their times in words born of the most painful silences...