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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slightly more than one week Cambridge residents have been wrestling with the City's new traffic plan, but it is still not clear whether the re-arranged traffic pattern is a success or a failure. For one thing only the first half of the new system has been put into effect. And the inevitable confusion which must accompany any great change in the traffic pattern has still not dissipated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Traffic Pattern | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...Talese, author of a long Esquire indiscretion about his old employer, the New York Times. When article ideas are nailed down, Hayes meets with Lois at New York's swish Four Sea sons restaurant; Lois takes it from there. "Reduced to its simplest terms," says Hayes, "our success relates to the fact that Gingrich got some smart, young guys together and gave them the freedom to thresh things out. As a result, Esquire has its own thumbprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Look How Outrageous! | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...architect of Dionne's success is Songwriter Burt Bacharach Jr., 39, son of the syndicated columnist, who discovered her six years ago when she was swinging doo-wap-dee-doo backgrounds in a recording studio. When she first appeared for an audition in pigtails, dungarees and sneakers, Bacharach was immediately impressed: "She has a tremendous strong side and a delicacy when singing softly-like miniature ships in bottles." Musically, she was "no play-safe girl. What emotion I could get away with!" And what complexity, compared with the usual run of pop songs. In Bacharach's Anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Spreading the Faith | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...hardened New York novelists and journalists, they cover the town with a cynical gallantry and inverse snobbery typical of the big-city provincial. This prevailing tone accounts for both the strengths and weaknesses of the book. It is authentic-mirroring the New Yorker's romance with artistic success and mechanical failure, Jewishness, the infallibility of cab drivers and elevator men, the superiority of Manhattan parks, ghettos and delicatessens. Tom Wolfe, a Yale Ph. D. in American Studies who has become a kind of Boswell of hip New York, contributes a scathing parody of a stranger's introduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: City Hopping | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Stewart never carried out his plan to seek funds for the extension in 1966 because of the hostile reception it met in the Senate. The current economic squeeze may forestall the extension again this year, but with the Congressional leaders solidly behind it, eventual success is likely. Like the East Front extension, which was approved in 1958 and funded a few years later, Stewart's present proposal seems inescapable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Capitol Punishment | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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