Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DeFORD, by David Shetzline. A first novel with an unlikely hero-a proud and aging carpenter unluckily stuck on Skid Row-and an even unlikelier success in making real the old man's shining vision and integrity...
...Battlefield success depends in large measure upon allowing professional generals to captain the military operation once the politicians have made the decision to fight. Once decided, further intrusion by politicians and diplomats creates more confusion than forward motion, loss of surprise, and a mucky situation such as we now have in Viet Nam. You just can't decide for a general where and when he will bomb or how he will attack. These are his valuable resources which spell success or defeat; timing is crucial. It's surprising that Westmoreland has done so well under the circumstances...
...years to become the generally accepted habit that it is today. It has taken science about 20 years to correlate, effectively, lung cancer with cigarette smoking. Alcohol, however, has had a rougher time, with Prohibition and Carry Nation standing in the road of progress. The offspring of its success have been thousands of suffering alcoholics. If marijuana is legalized, it will be interesting to see what vicious effects it will have on our already precarious society by the year 2000. Perhaps everyone will be so high that they won't care to come down and find...
...Only One Success...
...Harvard's trouble on behalf of the Indians, the College turned out only one Indian preacher. The single success, John Sassamon, attended Harvard for just one term in 1653 before he left to preach to the Wampanoags at Natick. (Sassamon is remembered less for his preaching than for his murder, which touched off King Philip...