Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson reiterated his willingness to negotiate with Hanoi-but he made it clear that he held out little hope for success. He told of one U.S. attempt to get peace talks started. It occurred during the first U.S. bombing pause in May 1965, when the Administration sent a letter proposing talks...
Even with the Inceptors' success, the two intramural leagues remain the most important part of the program, and Jeffer has bigger plans for them. He has organized the first annual Harvard Intramural Basketball Tournament, which will begin a week from today to determine the Harvard University champion...
This comes to the heart of the problem. For all the lip service the President may pay this week to his nonmilitary programs in South Vietnam, he will be unable to dispel the impression that he is preoccupied with military victory over the North. What success in the North specifically means in terms of ending the hostilities in the South is unclear. But as long as the United States maintains a military policy north of the 17th parallel which has become open-ended--and utterly destructive of any prospect for peace talks--the conflict in the South will continue...
...books have yet reached the classical shelf. He has written four novels-The Floating Opera, End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy. The first three together sold fewer than 8,000 copies. Goat-Boy, the only one that can be called a popular success, sold about 50,000 and showed up briefly on the bestseller lists. Despite this inconclusive reception, The Sot-Weed Factor has now been republished (Doubleday; $7.50), and Earth's first two novels will also be reissued, all in hardcover. What gives...
Like Conrad, Becker is fascinated by the tactical struggles of daily life, the strategic deployments that bring one man success and another failure. Philips will go far in his nation, but he remains a man without friends. Morrison wants passionately the pastoral simplicity he sees in the Lani, but it is almost his undoing when he learns the hard way that syphilis is endemic among the bush people. Becker has filled his story with lush scenery and pungent characters and built it as solidly as Morrison's bridge...