Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two months, I was worried. SIMS refuses to admit that meditation won't work for anyone, but they do train meditation "checkers" who can diagnose any minor problems that might be temporarily impeding success. So I made an appointment for a check-up. I went to a Back Bay apartment and was checked by a girl in her bedroom--that is, we meditated together there in the dark...
GRADES. The relationship between course grades in most professional schools and occupational success is in fact very low, often approaching zero...
...Beginning. Webb's early success is all the more striking because he was so recently at rock bottom, emotionally as well as economically. The son of a Baptist minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing...
...imitated Cezanne's can vases, which emphasized structure at the expense of color. The result was cubism, which is based in part on Cezanne's injunction: "Nature must be treated through the cylinder, the sphere, the cone." Vlaminck tried his hand at cubism, but with no great success. After four years in the French army, he emerged to develop his later moody, tempestuous vision; to the end of his days, he reviled Picasso as "the gravedigger of French...
...centrifuge in which ribosomes would be stable. It took some detective work to decide what that salt should be, but finally they succeeded. Their salt, made from cesium and, in substance, similar to vinegar, preserves ribosome structure, at least. This by itself is a major success because it should allow studies on animal ribosome structure, which up to now were only possible with the more stable ribosomes from bacteria...