Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the race, convention leaders have maintained that a high turnout in this year's basically issueless and lackluster campaign would indicate success for the Convention...
...will be none of the plaids, brightly striped shirts and rainbow-hued ties that Ford favors. Instead he will be urged to choose solid shades or conservative stripes in his suits and shirts, quietly striped or solid-color ties, and jackets with a conventional single vent. Rosenthal's success in the remaking of a President is far from assured. According to Betty Ford, her roommate never throws anything out. Recently, when White House Photographer David Kennerly kidded him for wearing a jacket with lapels wide enough to take wing, a defensive President responded, "What's wrong with this...
...Success, which William James called "the bitch goddess," has exerted a tripolar magnetic pull on most Americans. It is variously regarded with desire, fear and despair. The desire is to succeed. The fear is of failing to succeed. The despair is the feeling of emptiness, the loss of a rooted and perhaps better self after one has succeeded. The most distressing knowledge of all, of course, is to realize that you sought esteem in the eyes of others because you lacked it in your...
...episode illuminates one of the subliminal aspects of the play. It is concerned with Southern European codes of male honor and pride, and the warping indignities suffered by those who try to conform to American codes of success and middle-class etiquette...
Unalloyed success is hardly the stuff of gripping adventure, and Drabble wisely does not pretend otherwise. For plot, The Realms of Gold offers little more than the comical attempts of Frances and her professor-lover to reunite after an ill-conceived breakup. The tragedies in the book happen to others. A reclusive old relative of Frances' starves to death in a Midlands cottage; a nephew decides to leave the world he cannot take-and kills his infant daughter as well. Frances does not share this fatal pessimism. But she earnestly wants to know why she has been spared...