Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these bad moments scarcely dimmed the afterglow of Rockefeller's Southern excursion, at least among conservatives. Rocky's success can only encourage Ford, whose stock has also been rising in the South. Pressure was building on Ronald Reagan to declare his candidacy before too many conservatives had deserted...
Amid all the talk of success, it sounded as though the nation's largest city had finally given up all efforts to govern itself and surrendered its key powers to the state. But Mayor Beame didn't see it that way. Said he: "We're not giving up home rule. There is absolutely nothing in the plan that doesn't exist today." After leaving the mystified reporters, the mayor returned to a basement conference room in his executive mansion to brief city officials on the new system. And what had he asked the city officials...
Kelley's efforts to pacify his men by sharing his troubles did not meet with much success. Neither did the explanations of Deputy U.S. Attorney General Harold R. Tyler Jr. He told the FBI meeting that the Justice Department will assist any agents who are summoned before congressional committees for actions they took while under orders. Thus far, the Senate investigating committee has subpoenaed two agents and could call another 70 to testify about various dirty tricks-wiretaps, burglaries, and the kidnaping of Soviet agents for interrogation by the CIA. But aside from future dangers, many...
...notion that homosexuality can or should be "cured" is a matter of dispute. In the past 20 years, a number of psychoanalysts have reported limited success with patients who wanted to become heterosexual, but many psychiatrists and sex researchers are dubious about the reported changes...
Kipling, both Mason and Wilson agree, was a superb writer who, again like Hemingway, could make textures and smells-the very rhythms of life-leap off the page. Why, then, did he come closer to success in his short stories (for instance, The Man Who Would Be King) than in his novels (for instance, Captains Courageous)? Because, says Wilson, he could not conceal his true, tragic nature in the longer run. Mason concedes that Kipling's training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray...