Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaw wrote as compulsively as he talked, and the 691 letters in this volume form a fascinating biography from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk, to the age of 41, when he was on the eve of his first big success, Candida...
...success has brought problems that Puerto Ricans never thought would worry them. Emigration to the main land, their traditional answer to chronic overpopulation, has slowed as jobs have become more plentiful at home. Vigorous opposition from the Roman Catho ic Church has all but wrecked any ef ective government birth control program. Population is now increasing at an average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status...
...women." She disagrees with Mary Bunting that women should think of developing some competence early, retiring for a decade to bear and rear children, and then making a comeback. Women need to think of "new patterns new combinations. Babies can be left in day nurseries." She is suspicious of successful women; she claims women's college presidents, who have achieved some success, are especially jealous of their positions, regard themselves as exceptional, and assure their students that "all women are not capable of combing careers and marriages...
...student immediately notified both University and Cambridge police of the incident. Since then he has been asked to Cambridge police headquarters several times. One time he was asked to identify a suspect, the other times he examined mug shots, all without success...
...Paul's Catholic Church is replete with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults in the production which detract seriously from its overall effect...