Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times these councils of democracy lord it over every conceivable student activity. They finance the drama, publish the newspaper, run the canteens, stage the dances, organize the political forums, etc. The moguls of student government stand at the apex of the single giant pyramid symbolizing campus power, prestige, and success...
Jane Bullock, as Laura, is responsible for much of the success the play managers to attain. In the first scene, she is eating dinner, picking at her food with the nervous movements of a deer. From that moment, her tremulous voice and brittle gestures create the image of a glass girl who is just as fragile as her tiny companions...
Prince's principle of success is that he has brought sensible business management and cost accounting to an erratic field in which producers too often think that budgets are for breaking. He knows what every item in every scene costs-"including how much I'll need to simulate icicles." When casting his shows, he scouts for little-known talent because "stars tend to take the cream off the top of the profits." Broadway musicals commonly cost $500,000 to produce, but none of Prince's shows has topped...
...essential to success is a sure sense of timing. The right time to have broken into the computer industry or electronics or frozen food or Arizona real estate was in the 1950s; now those fields are crowded. Similarly, the bonanza days of mining and oil are probably gone. Other fields are invitingly open, however, and they can usually be spotted by keeping an eye on three things demographic changes, new legislation and the state of the U.S. and world economy...
...Crimson has Steve Simpson and Craig Stapleton. Simpson is the rugged little left-hander who won the crucial fifth match at Penn last year. Stapleton, the top freshman two years ago, moved up to number nine on the varsity last season. Much of the team's chances for success depends on whether Stapleton and the other players in the middle of the ladder can win with the same consistency they did at lower spots last year...