Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mole has served as a catalyst to radical consciousness and action at Harvard, with high school students, and in the women's liberation movement, as a revolutionary newspaper, a limited success...
This year the Harvard Dramatic Club will do three plays at the Loeb during the fall term: Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chekhov's Three Sisters, and John Bowen's After the Rain (a sort of parable play that was a critical success and audience bomb in London and New York). Are you thrilled? Even if they are great productions, are you going to go? I doubt it. You are not going to go, because, unless you are a real theatre enthusiast, you have either no interest in seeing any of these plays in any form...
...story of a seafood restaurant entrepreneur and a trio of mistresses. The middleaged hero will be played by James Coco, who made a splash last season in the New York production of Next. The director is Robert Moore, who contributed the dazzling staging accountable for much of the success of New York's current Boys in the Band and Promises, Promises...
High-Priced Toys. Although the company is called "Winnebago-a-Grow-Grow" by its corn-country boosters, its success did not come easily. The Forest City Development Committee, appointed by the town to woo industry, raised $50,000 by selling stock locally. With those funds, the committee refurbished an old pumpkin cannery and began making so-called camper coaches: portable dwellings that can be mounted on pickup trucks. The venture failed, and the factory was forced to close. Finally, John K. Hanson, a Forest City furniture-store owner, bought up the stock at a reduced price and reopened the plant...
Marks of Hell. Gardner's fight talk is brilliantly accurate. The true pathos of fighting as a subsistence trade, he shows, comes not from scheming and exploitation but from the slow corruption of courage and spirit. "Fat City," as fighters sometimes call success in boxing, is bankrupt. The long sleek cars, the sweet shock of public recognition, the feel of silk on skin is, for most fighters, pure celluloid fantasy. Their daily rounds are marked instead by steady pain and a sameness that is itself the mark of most hells...