Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimately puzzling problem is that there are perhaps untold numbers of alienated Americans who have lost the race for prestige and success, who have had unhappy childhoods, who are uprooted geographically and morally?and who would not think of shooting the President or anyone else. When does the malcontent turn dangerous? When does the harmless kook become harmful? No one can know for sure. One of the costs of democracy is the fact that the dangerous social oddball can lurk anywhere at any time, waiting to act out his or her delusions...
...here?" So begins a confused attempt by Sara Jane ("Sally") Moore to explain herself to her new radical friends, who had ostracized her after learning of her FBI activity. Last spring she tried to interest California newspapers and radio stations in carrying her story, but she met with no success...
Despite the penalty, clusters of teachers kept up the strike, often marching in picket lines inside the "buffer zones" set up for antibusing demonstrators near such trouble-prone schools as South Boston and Charlestown. Administrators and teacher aides tried to hold some classes, with indifferent success. "I've got seven kids," said one South End mother, "and there's no way I can keep them home. But they're not really learning very much in school this week...
When Nadelman died in New York in 1946, his name vanished as suddenly as a stone into a well; and yet, for the first 50 years of his life, he had been the epitome of worldly-and, to an extent, aesthetic-success. Born in 1882 into a cultivated family of Warsaw Jews, Nadelman settled in Paris and moved with ease and originality through the circle that included Picasso, Apollinaire and the Steins; his early work from 1906 to 1907 is known to have influenced Picasso's own sculpture, and Nadelman's place among the progenitors of Cubism...
...listened, the more one appreciated. It was the multidimensional quality of their music that enabled Pink Floyd to enjoy a two-and-one-half year period of unproductivity. After all, they were financially secure and probably a bit apprehensive about releasing a follow-up to such an unbelievably successful effort. But although it came pretty close, even the success of Dark Side of the Moon wasn't enough to enable the group to retire, and so, three weeks ago, Pink Floyd released their tenth album, entitled Wish You Were Here...