Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve long hours of heart transplant surgery yesterday, doctors at Boston's Hartz Mountain Bird Clinic listed their world-famous patient in "marginal condition." Chief surgeon Dr. Amos P. Goy expressed hope the Ibis would survive, but cautioned that "one can't measure these operations purely in terms of success or failure." Dr. Goy, who in 13 previous attempts kept transplant patients alive an aggregate total of 19 minutes, said a more definite report would be possible by this afternoon...
...defeat, as I have noted, by a Communist Party that had achieved leadership of a nationalist movement. And at each juncture that we felt ourselves losing our grip, we increased our investment. Opportunities to exit with a modicum of grace were regularly by-passed in the expectation of eventual success. And now that that success seems further off than ever, our stakes have been transformed, and exit is infinitely harder...
...right lesson is that we should never get that deeply involved in an underdeveloped far-away country. I am not sure that this is the appropriate lesson. The real lesson is the uniqueness of the Vietnam situation, the unique complex of forces there, which made success in that enterprise so highly improbable even if you looked...
WHETHER all this will change because of McCarthy's success in New Hampshire is uncertain. Friday night Joe did call McCarthy "a groovy guy. He's like a genius." There is no doubt, however, that Joe and the Fish are sincerely against President Johnson and the War. In their "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag," the Fish decry the War with an alternating background of "sock it to me" and "do wacka do" by singing...
...stylized comedy technique borrowed wholesale from vintage Cary Grant. Overpraised for his character acting in this and Huston's earlier Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Bogart was greatest in the romantic Hawks-Hammett-Hemingway world of the individual pitting personal morality against an inherently corrupt society, the ultimate success being the maintenance of personal self-respect...