Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metropolitan Opera has been putting on La Traviata with regular success ever since its first season...
...World of Our Fathers, he confronts another symptom of success in America: the assimilation blues. For many Americans whose non-English-speaking parents and grandparents were part of the huddled mass that funneled through Ellis Island at the turn of the century, the immigrant experience is conveniently forgotten or bizarrely recreated...
...last few years of Dame Agatha's life saw an upsurge in Christiemania. Murder on the Orient Express, the film based on her novel Murder in the Calais Coach, was a huge box office success that spurred even further the sales of her books. Curtain, the novel in which Hercule Poirot predeceases his author (TIME, Sept. 15), is still No. 1 on U.S. bestseller lists, with over a quarter of a million copies in print...
...quantify Loeb's power in terms of the support his candidates for public office receive. Certainly there is a hard core Loeb constituency in New Hampshire. Indeed an actual Loeb party, a Republican faction, has played a key role in state politics for a long time. But the political success of reactionaries like Meldrim Thomson and Wesley Powell is only one standard with which to measure the Loeb influence. The Union Leader informs the political dynamic of New Hampshire on a more subtle, day-to-day basis. Public discussion of the need for a sales tax has become a practical...
Added to this strange mixture is the church's strong affinity for capitalism. As if guided by the Weberian theory of the Protestant ethic, the Mormons tie prosperity to their religion; material success is taken as a sign of the Lord's rewarding Mormons. Larry Dewey's father, for example, believes that the good things that have come to him since his conversion to Mormonism are directly attributable to the church. The work ethic is evident in Mormon undergraduates, who are not coincidentally often...