Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women who arrived in New York City 20 years ago, seduced by the city's promise of adventure, exotica, success and love, the need to choose was for more rigid and the assumptions not so clear. As Rona Jaffe '51 describes in The Best of Everything, published in 1958, for three young women the search for a path to follow meant a struggle with hurt, frustration and most saliently, compromise...
...both La Scala and the Paris Opéra, is no ordinary director. When he says the music comes first, he means it. When he uses the phrase no man's land, he means that too; contrasting cases in point are the failure of his Macbeth and the success of his Figaro...
...Stockholm office. Wall's key strength as an executive-a virtue that pleases even Sweden's socialists-is his almost uncanny ability to spot the flaws in ailing firms and then transform the companies into profitable ventures. Supremely confident, he has no problem living with his success and big income. Says he: "I deserve...
...Successful Tool. Though the FBI says it uses hypnosis sparingly, mesmerizing consenting witnesses is on the increase as a police investigative tool. The Los Angeles Police Department has worked with the technique since 1970. Noting its success, Psychologist Martin Reiser, head of the L.A.P.D.'S behavioral-sciences services, decided last year to set up a special hypnosis unit, the first in the U.S. Kroger and nine other medical hypnotists trained 14 L.A.P.D. officers in the technique, which dates back at least to ancient Egypt. Says L.A.P.D. Captain Richard Sandstrom, who is currently evaluating the work of the force...
...been through them. Unfortunately, he also includes the whole libretto of $4000. Since he wrote it, his fondness for the piece is forgivable. But his tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...