Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ms. Freedberg interviewed me about the fear of success findings at Harvard and Radcliffe, she made it clear (1) that she did not fear success and therefore there must be something wrong with the findings, and (2) that the findings could be interpreted as being damaging to women and therefore should not have been released for publication. I'm afraid these opinions rather garbled the account of what the survey findings were and what I think they mean...
...Wilson's success in the forging of his new "social contract" between Labour and the nation--Britain's last credible chance to stave off economic anarchy, as even the Tories concede--will depend on factors more fundamental than the revelations of the Crossman diaries. But clearly the embarassments they contain could not have come at a worse time for Wilson, when he needs all the support of Labour's Old Left (Foot and others of the New Statesman set) to control the New. But Wilson gravely miscalculated his legal position when he tried to suppress the diaries by direct government...
...world of The Mousetrap is peopled with immature, often exaggerated characters, who rationalize their idiosyncracies by suggesting that "perhaps it's fun to be crazy." The mark of this production's success is that it half-persuades us to accept this premise, if only for the night...
...University of Southern California and Nebraska, Avery said he did not have much success because he found their athletic departments preoccupied with big-time football...
Dennis Leder, a 29-year-old Jesuit who will be ordained into the priesthood in June, works across the hall, where he looks out on Mass Ave and Boylston Street and like Warner slowly works his way toward artistic success. Leder lives in a Jesuit community in Cambridge and studies at the Weston School of Theology, where he came from New York City a year and a half ago. He decided he wanted to be a priest when he was 18 years old, because of the priesthood's "elements of service to people...