Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Martin Kilson is upset again with black students who spend their time, in his words, sucking their "ethnic thumbs." His characterization of black solidarity implies that black students are both immature and insecure, for they have turned their backs on the "success patterns and intellectual processes" that are readily demonstrated among other Harvard students...
Professor Kilson's thesis relies heavily on what he calls the "success pattern" at Harvard. To him, black students should strive for formal integration within the University context. He should be pleased, as we are, that black Harvard graduates have historically made significant contributions to society. He should also be pleased that recent black graduates appear to be achieving the type of success he values, while still having to deal with society's racism...
DIED. George Cory, 57, moody songwriter who penned the music for an international hit, I Left My Heart in San Francisco; of a drug overdose; in San Francisco. After writing more than 200 songs with indifferent success, Cory was approached in 1961 by Singer Tony Bennett, who needed a number to highlight a San Francisco engagement and salvage a fading career. Cory and his lyricist partner Douglass Cross pulled a dusty, eight-year-old tune from their trunk and the trio made a fortune...
...Finding the fun, however, can present a problem. Despite rave reviews for Street Hassle and a seismic stage show with which Reed is currently touring the country, playing his transparent Lucite guitar, radio play-crucial to an album's success-has been very limited. Says Arista President Clive Davis: "Every artist of original talent is a commercial challenge. Quality eventually wins out." He has no intention of urging Reed to cool down or slick...
...committee will try to develop additional recommendations for reducing red tape and will also keep an eye on the government, issuing a periodic scorecard which notes its success in implementing the committee's suggestions...