Word: successful
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...rest of the program been as unified and steadily performed as the Persichetti, the evening would have been an unqualified success. But Walker often seemed to substitute rapidity for a clear sense of form. As a result, runs were frequently a struggle for the weakest members of the band, and dynamic levels tended to lack control, particularly in the two fanfares of Clifton Williams (1956) and Alexander Tcherepnin...
...ideal coach, therefore, is one who can keep the athletes psychologically aroused, placate old grads with success, and establish good relations with the local press. Obviously this is a rare...
Even inside this restricted objective, Nichols falls short of success. An attempt to simulate awkwardness in the opening scene achieves only slowness. At the other interval when smart pacing could do much--the death of Regina's husband--Nichols throws it all away, so when Horace runs desperately up the stairs, the audience doesn't even gasp. Nichols, it is true, has a tolerable eye for blocking small groups: with 5 actors, he is happy; with 4 or 6 comfortable; with 3 or 7, resigned. But where it counts, with 1 or 100, he retreats stealthily into the confines...
...countless short stories little more than glorified True Confessions pap-orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions, which are little soul-tapers lighting the way." No story could hold a candle to her own 37-year marriage to the late pianist Jacques S. Danielson. Bedeviled by her disapproving parents, the couple were wed in secret...
Shutzer nevertheless called the drive a success. "We had different objectives than in the past," he said, "Participation was our goal. On this basis the drive was extremely successful...