Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While its popularity may silence the gloomy critics of the national scene who proclaim that America never reads, the book's success threatens to throw a wench into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...
...Wright are in some sense transitional men. They articulate grievances and point the way for change. They seek to mobilize the resources of the entire Negro community, impossible as it may seem, in a first plunge into group politics and economic activity--a plunge for which neither immediate success nor immediate failure is indicated...
...last Englishman to meet with such boundless dual success--popular and critical--was Charles Dickens. A New York mob once trampled eight of its own rushing to get the last installment of The Old Curiosity Shop off the boat from England. The critics took years, however, to catch up with the mobs in enthusiasm and to discover what lay beneath Dickens' charismatic storytelling. The remarkable thing about Sgt. Pepper is that it received both popular and critical acclaim instantly. So great today is the pressure to appreciate that critics rushed to hail the album as "entertainment verging...
...item since Catherine the Great. Of pogroms and general misery, Nicky knew only what he was told. Of the good features of Russian life-the upsurge of national genius in fiction, poetry and science-he knew little, and what little he did know he did not like. His sole success was in contriving some sort of private life for himself and Alicky. At Czarskoe Selo (the Czar's village), the Romanovs had contrived a sort of toy world, protected from the real one by a high iron fence and 5,000 guardsmen. Here Nicky and Alicky lived their simple...
...will know in a couple of days just how big a success we have been," Lehrer said, "and then we may plan to expand...