Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heady parable of the worm (himself) who turned predator and earned a spectacular $849,901 in a single year of real estate wheeling and dealing. Despite the differences in style, the message is the same: death will come soon; meanwhile, there is nothing left to believe in but success and power in a cruel world we never made...
...husband does step into the kitchen, Betty said, it's ssually to make "a marvelous salad." And two or three times a year he stirs up "something French." His secret ambition, Betty revealed, is to learn to bake bread. "He's tried, but it hasn't been a success," she said...
Frank Rich, for example, graduated from Harvard four years ago, and his friends say he is a success. They know, because when they call his New York townhouse a tape recorder tells them, "No one is home right now." Frank Rich's friends envy him that--even his Harvard Law School, Rhodes scholar friend--and they envy everything else about...
Frank Rich's material success may be no substitute for the intangibles, like pride in his work, but, the way his friends see it, Rich has come a long way since the days when he was trudging around with them in the Cambridge slush, agonizing over term papers and eating Barbecue Beef in the Lowell House dining room. What really gets them, though--what really sets their teeth gnashing--is that those days were so recent. That's just the way it happens, for some people. Before he could hang up his mortarboard, Rich was writing an article about Daniel...
...Success conferred itself upon these people without any of the usual confusion or red tape. Some unexplained combination of luck and talent, ambition and self-promotion and hard work, opened doors for them that their classmates will be throwing themselves against until well-nigh on middle...