Word: successful
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...rantings against West Germany may help divert attention from the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. But the Soviets undoubtedly hope to accomplish more than that. In their view, West Germany represents the chief threat to the status quo in Eastern Europe, and behind much of the Soviet hostility lies the success of West Germany's Ostpolitik. Until two years ago, the West German government refused to have any political dealings with the Communist countries in Eastern Europe, a rigid cold war stance that suited the Krem lin's own aims well. Then in came the Grand Coalition, whose Foreign...
...hardly make for brilliant satire. But as monotonously intoned by singer Jeannie C. Riley on a tiny Nashville label called Plantation Records, P.T.A. is the runaway hit single of the late summer and autumn. It seems to have tapped a new anti-middle-class market. One other recent, lesser success is Singer-Songwriter Ray Stevens' Mr. Businessman, which declares in part: "Eighty-six proof anesthetic crutches brought you to the top/Where the smiles are all synthetic and the ulcers never stop." The market may consist either of middle-class youngsters who are put off by the adult world...
Evangelist Billy Graham has impressed politicians as well as fellow preachers with his dynamic sermonizing and his success in persuading millions to make their "decision for Christ." Every President since Harry Truman has welcomed Billy to the White House. As a good Baptist, Graham has maintained a strict wall of separation between his religious and his political convictions, and has never endorsed any candidate for office. But his determination to be neutral has been sorely strained this election year. Billy finds it hard to conceal the fact that he has made his own decision for Richard Nixon...
...correspondent in Washington, and the correspondent's activity is largely restricted to reporting the utterances of Georgia's Senators and Congressmen. Patterson and other editors have argued for more money for their staffs and more coverage of the news, but their efforts have met with little success...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...