Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the criterion for greatness is success? Or is it that 1968 was so terrifying a year for human relations that we must salute a concrete accomplishment made possible by the less human of human virtues, efficiency? I don't quite know. But, to me, 1968 was a year of human commitment. More of mankind than ever before became genuinely concerned for their fellow man. There was more hope arid more despair, more excitement and more tragedy. But, above all, commitment. 1968 was not a year to salute the successes of science; it was a year of hope...
Thus the man who sought to govern by consensus could not even hold together his own party. The politician who attempted-with much success-to complete the unfinished business of the New Deal ended by presiding over a nation beset by class and racial tension. The President elected in 1964 by the largest popular majority in history had to admit that the interests of peace and national unity would best be served by his renunciation of power...
...even misleading, despite the piles of bills and billions for good causes. Indeed, Johnson enjoyed two periods of Congressional bliss within 14 months-immediately after John Kennedy's assassination and then after L.B.J.'s 1964 victory over Barry Goldwater. In the 1960s, however, the measurement of success in box scores was not enough. If the New Politics has any validity, it is that the politician needs continuing mass support, in election year and out. Johnson had earned his reputation and learned his trade in closet politics, in the one-party Texas of another era and the cloister...
McMahon attributes his success to a lonely childhood. His father was one of the first of the professional fund raisers, and the family was always on the move. By the time he was four, he had moved through 40 states. By high school graduation he had attended 15 schools. Throughout it all, he was earning his own spending money. At 10, he bought copies of the Bayonne Times on the newsstands for a penny, hawked them in bars and restaurants for two cents. He shined shoes, dug ditches, sold peanuts, labored on a construction gang. At 18, he toured...
WHAT is man? To this age-old question, the social sciences are now proposing some extraordinarily complicated new answers. First and foremost, man is an animal-but he is neither the end product of evolution nor much more than a mediocre biological success. The body he inhabits is primitive, at least 50,000 years out of date. Basically, he is one of the world's most aggressive beasts, who, the scientists say, fundamentally enjoys torturing and killing other animals, including his fellow man in the sport known...