Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ackerman said that "our present policy of scattered appointments has caused static around the Yard. If I were on an appointment committee. I should call attention to the success of a few firms--Sert, Jackson, and Gourley; Stubbins, T.A.C.--in sensitively responding to our physical and aesthetic requirements...
...attributed their success "not only to their being good architects, but to their having the time and opportunity to understand our needs better than the harried outsider who jets in from far off for a few hours of conferences...
...fail. In 1962 he quit for good to retire to his home in Connecticut and write an autobiography implausibly titled Paper Tiger. "I left the Trib in disappointment and rage both times," he lamented. But honest rage was more than half the secret of Stanley Woodward's success as a sports editor...
Laurel and Hardy were virtually the only silent comedy stars to repeat their phenomenal success in talkies, probably because their miming spoke louder than words. Stan remained a model of amiable imbecility, impervious to thought. Ollie, a blob just a shade brighter, bumbled his way through every difficulty with ineffable grace, slowly building up vast reserves of despair, self-pity and frustration that only a long pained look into the camera could dispel...
Despite wealth, fame, and a success that now is taken for granted Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players are still able to surprise their audience...