Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this brought-up-on-TV generation." Clay Felker, whose innovative but now languishing New York magazine produced so many imitators, is trying to rehabilitate Esquire. Where once, in the words of a previous editor, Esquire sought to be "smartass," it now respectfully pursues "The American Man and the New Success." Perhaps he's the same young moneymaking male in whom Playboy naturally discerns a "lust for life." Its promotion speaks unctuously of this reader as a healthy radical in the '60s who has joined a "new, but better Establishment." Penthouse sometimes sneaks in an expos...
Finally, Wriston is troubled that "success is no longer perceived by large groups of people as being success. It used to be that if you were Henry Ford and got three fellows and a monkey wrench and built a great company, people gave you flowers. Today, if you create a great company, people take potshots at you because they think that behind every success there must be some dirty secret...
...Success is under suspicion, heroes are under attack. "I claim that Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy, died a long time ago," Wriston continues. "And today, Abe Lincoln could never be nominated. Abe Lincoln, the fellow who did not show up at his own wedding. Abe Lincoln, who, after Ann Rutledge died, was certifiably crazy and was found wandering in the woods, mumbling to himself. Can you imagine what a great story that would have made on Channel 7? The sad fact is that we are scrutinizing our leaders and our institutions in the kind of close detail that...
...questions so he could address the real interests of his congregation. So powerful was his speaking style, so candid his discussions of the moral tensions in modern Soviet life that the church was soon overflowing with visitors, many of them dissatisfied young atheists. Such a response would usually guarantee success for a clergyman. For Dudko, it led to police interrogations, then removal from his parish by nervous church authorities. It very nearly ended his career. Dudko apologized to the Orthodox hierarchy for his indiscretions, and that, in addition to his popularity, enabled him to remain a priest...
...quite make out Stallone's moronic mumblings, the guys in the union halls may possibly have the same difficulty. This closed-in quality of Stallone's bespeaks not a leader of men but a narcissistic, self-absorbed actor star-tripping in the wake of his enormous 1976 success, Rocky...