Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing better illustrates what is wrong with this country than Rowan and Martin being called a "success." A similar "success" is Gore Vidal with his incredibly filthy books. If vulgarity, innuendo, bad language, bad manners and filth are what is necessary to be a success in these United States, then we are certainly headed for either total depravity or a sharp reaction with a dictatorship. At the end of the last century, the U.S. was at the dawn of a golden age in literature and culture. We had Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Bryant and Whitman. Our former greatness now turns around...
...elegant bazaar. The Broadway marquees touted yet another hectic season. From the Battery to The Bronx, the thud of dynamite and the roar of drills accompanied probably the greatest construction boom in the history of cities. No other metropolis in the world offered its inhabitants greater hope of material success or a wider variety of cultural rewards. Yet for all its dynamism and glamour, New York City, day by day, little by little, was sliding toward chaos. "The question now," said its handsome young Mayor, John Lindsay, "is whether we can continue to survive as a city...
...barrier far more formidable than the barbed wire fence where a Dow guard takes away your camera while you go on your tour of the plant. It was a gap between people who enjoyed working for a profit, who accepted money flow as a measure of their success, and people like me who felt uncomfortable all day with the idea...
...senior veteran who may have finally shaken his injury jinx and a sophomore who is running better than anyone expected are two of the men who figure prominently in the Harvard cross country team's chances to continue the glowing success it has enjoyed so far this year...
...sophomores," he adds, "we were all conscious of our own individual performances, but now we're team-conscious; we still push each other, but everybody is interested in the success of the team...