Word: successful
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While Reagan enjoyed some good luck, notably Christopher's unexpectedly inept campaign, his success was more a case of beginner's skill. Reagan was co-chairman of Barry Goldwater's campaign in California and one of Goldwater's most effective spokesmen in 1964. This year he heeded the advice of the political-management firm of Spencer-Roberts to bring his image closer to center. Without abandoning any conservative fundamentals-his platform embraces "fiscal responsibility" and rejects open-housing legislation -Reagan conveyed the impression of a responsible, vigorous crusader with all of the ardor and none...
Strike to win, strike only when success is certain...
...piece strikes. If so, as is happening with increasing regularity to Giap's best-laid plans, another timetable must be destroyed, and all the meticulous, delicate structure of insurgency tactics be reassembled. It is General Vo Nguyen Giap's own aphorism that he may only attack when success is certain. Even more than his rice and his bullets, that certitude is in scarce supply in the new war the men from the North must endure in South Viet...
...season-ending production last week of a 147-year-old opera called Olympie, by Gasparo Spontini. It flopped, mainly because it lacked a singer of superstar rank. In the past, the company could dredge up any old potboiler, cast Callas or Tebaldi in the lead, and have a resounding success. But now Callas and Tebaldi are little more than memories in Italy. Along with the younger corps of fine singers, they have been lured away by bigger money and better working conditions in the U.S. and elsewhere. What is left is hardly satisfying to the discriminating Italians. "They want...
...AGGRESSION: "When aggression stalks either a community or the world, resistance to it is both necessary and noble, lest it become all-pervasive. And it is well that it should be checked in its early days before it can acquire the cumulative momentum of success."-Senator Paul Douglas at Amherst...