Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writer-Director Claude Berri has made a funny and charming film about, of all things, antiSemitism; he owes his success largely to two outstanding character actors, Michel Simon, 73, and Alain Cohen...
Neither civilian rulers such as Indira Gandhi nor the generals who have taken over from the postcolonial politicians in many South Asian nations have had much success in changing these attitudes. The result is that the best-laid, often Western-tutored, economic plans consistently go awry. Whether military or civilian, nominally capitalist or self-styled socialist, "the various political systems in the region are strikingly similar in their inability or unwillingness to institute fundamental reforms and enforce social discipline. They are all in this sense 'soft states.' " And, adds Myrdal: "There is little hope in South Asia...
Senator McCarthy's success in New Hampshire will deal a serious, perhaps fatal, blow to the radical anti-war movement at Harvard and across the country...
...McCarthy's success will change all that. His campaign appears as a "last chance" for American liberalism...
Radicals here are jealous of McCarthy's quick success in harnessing anti-war support--although they are quick to point out that their protests laid the groundwork for his achievements...