Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skill in creating characters that are so genuine that their eccentricities become not only acceptable but absorbing. Their reality has little to do with external characteristics such as Frances' impressive credentials; for the most part, action accedes to thought. Frances suffers from anxiety at the "seeming inevitability" of her success: "I must be mad, she thought to herself. I imagine a city, and it exists. If I hadn't imagined it, it wouldn't have existed. All her life, things have been like that...
High School Success...
Affirmative action works in subtle ways; much of its success or failure depends on people's attitudes. Harvard has practically no out-and-out racists any more. Discrimination here manifests itself, instead, in how people define the qualifications for a job and in how important it is to them to increase the number of blacks and women at Harvard...
...when that sport is fostered, through the construction of cement courts and clean washroom facilities, the sparkling concommitants of the sport's success are increased student concern with personal hygiene and the uplifting weltenschaung of a dynamic new geist...
...tend to believe in the life of the mind and that belief exists independently of sheer ambition or greed. The ability philosophically to accept defeat at the polls or in party councils is a factor of one's ability to function in a world in which that kind of success is not as important as it is elsewhere. Intangible although this may be, it lends a quality of independence of judgment and action which sets a different and better standard than electoral success for its own sake...