Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means to assess candidates on individual merit; and it is doubtless a boon to the test authors, evaluators and proctors who regularly enjoy its moonlighting income. But it has surely demeaned education and caused widespread cynicism among students. Why indeed should pupils learn to write when the key to success is found in filling in pencil lines, rather than composing anything of originality...
...Everett Parker, media watchdog of the liberal United Church of Christ, calls the program "a deliberate effort to break down any resistance to whatever the industry wants to put into prime time." Says Wall Street Media Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Soap is a stalking horse. If it is a success, everyone will want...
...counseled a student soprano. La Divina, as she was called, was talking about the art of portraying an operatic heroine onstage. But she might have been offering her philosophy of life. She came out of an unhappy childhood-appallingly fat and resentful and lonely-and clawed her way to success and greatness with a singlehearted ferocity that awed even her enemies. Conductor Tullio Serafin, her indispensable mentor in the crucial early days, was tossed aside temporarily-for daring to record La Traviata with another soprano. Enraged at the Callas ego, La Scala Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano declared...
...prospect of failure looms large, and the fear of failure hangs heavy. But the prospect of success still remains...
...Success means a future and more sports. But failure--for some it means a wait until next year, and for others it means...