Word: successful
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Identification Value. Staircase's success is a sweet surprise to Miss Kaufman, a vivacious divorcee and mother of two (her son is a Berkeley graduate student, her daughter a University of Wisconsin senior), who quit the New York City school system after 17 intermittent years as a high school English teacher to write her book. "I thought teachers would find it to be true," she says. "But I had no idea it would sweep the country." Now much in demand as a lecturer at teachers' conventions, Miss Kaufman lives in a Park Avenue apartment, likes the shift from...
...International Journal of the Addictions, they say that of eleven male volunteers, only one so far did not work out; he decided to try methadone, a heroin replacement that also impedes highs but is itself addictive (TIME, Sept. 3). Among the other ten, preliminary results show varying signs of success. Most have reported a lessening of narcotic craving and say that they have tried large doses of their old drug once or twice with little or no effect. Said one: "I was never so relieved in my life...
Billy Graham's integrated crusade in Greenville, S.C., last week drew so many people to the huge Textile Hall that he had to go on double sessions. But for Billy, success was touched with sadness. Boycotting the crusade were the 3,800 intensely religious students and faculty of fundamentalist Bob Jones University, where Graham studied and "got my evangelism...
After 33 years of marriage and comfortable success, both the Highets are positive they complement each other perfectly. His background of classicism has given depth and flavor to her work, and her interest in light fiction has given a human edge to his scholarship. Both are gifted amateur pianists; for relaxation they play duets on two baby grands placed back to back in their comfortable Park Avenue apartment. They always write to music from a constantly playing stereo. Says MacInnes, "It never bothers me. I just think, 'Oh, there's Ravel,' like an old friend...
While working on it she developed a bad case of writer's cramp. She tried writing with her left hand without success. In desperation, she turned to an electric typewriter. "But it was as if the typewriter were whining for the next sentence," she says. Finally she tried a regular typewriter, and the book flowed. "Mr. Highet says that this book is crisper and more concise because of the typewriter," she says triumphantly. And perhaps he is right...