Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answers to this would probably equal the number responding. One would fear the reaction from our conservative traditional colony here. Another is merely too shy. But I feel that a problem inherent to Harvard would frequently occur as a reason: students at this school seem to mark off success and worthiness by distinctiveness of professional degree, and, even more importantly, by size of annual income. In this environment of good business thinkers, where ideologies are modified by practical considerations, homosexuality is viewed by homosexuals as a financial liability. A student openly and actively gay is going to have a harder...
...street corner scholar" has encountered major difficulties in obtaining recognition of the validity of his methods from the established medical community, and all indications suggest he will continue to run up against similar reactions in the future. Humes does not possess a medical degree, and documentation on the ultimate success of his treated patients is lacking. Humes has not operated one of his "crash pad clinics" for the detoxification of addicts for over a year, choosing in recent months to concentrate on the anxiety afflictions of elderly Cambridge residents. And his current legal difficulties do not promise to improve...
...HEAR AS MUCH in Elton John's music from the small, overamplified speakers of the radio in a rusted-out '69 Dodge as you can from an expensive living-room stereo. That is a major source of his success and his importance. His songs made it big from the dashboards of beat-up, second-hand cars, old bomds parents let their kids take out on Saturday nights, souped-up monsters that squealed out of high school parking lots, cars with steamed-up windows parked in dark woods outside town...
Beneath the feathered hats and the enormous glasses Elton is known for, apart from the foot-high platform shoes and the carpeted pianos, there has always lurked a moody, but very good singer, songwriter and piano player. Success spoiled him. Somehow the piano player got lost among the glamorous and empty accoutrements of international success...
...hours of happy reading. The book is chock full of interesting observations about the game from the man who knows it all and isn't afraid to say so. The best part of the book covers Red's attitudes towards his teams. He claims the secret to his success was, along with his nose for talent, a feeling of respect he engendered on his team. He demanded respect from his players, but he gave it back to them, too. From a sociological standpoint Auerbach coached during the time the NBA shifted from an all-white to a mostly black league...