Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advisors." Both my sophomore and junior tutors have been students of my father at one time or another. I feel that I have to do extraordinarily well so that I am a credit to my father. It is essentially an aggravated version of the familiar situation of children's success--or lack of it--reflecting directly on their parents. The pressure is always there, no matter how understanding a tutor...
...said that "attributes one normally requires" for political success are "insufficient" for black women. "Success is possible," she said, "but black folks can't romanticize about...
...beauty and a freedom the earthbound could never know, but a purifying simplicity as well. In those early days, there were well known limits of performance against which one pressed, hoping through technique and aeronautical invention, to redefine them. There was also a direct correlation between talent and success (which could be defined simply as survival) that seemed unknown on the ground. A camaraderie grew among the handful of initiates in this new and glamorous mystery that was not to be found anywhere else either...
...among political leaders in Washington as battlefield events in the small nations of Cambodia and South Viet Nam once again troubled America's long-tortured conscience concerning its role in that distant part of the world. The persistent Khmer Rouge rebels seemed on the verge of final military success as they pinched the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh. Communist forces in South Viet Nam stepped up the fighting there to its most intense level since the Paris Peace Accords were supposed to have ended it all in 1973. The problem for the U.S. was what, if anything, it should...
...rock music is well played, but deafening amplification makes the lyrics unintelligible. It is not easy to see why this campy trash was a long-running hit in London and a smash success in Los Angeles, except that transvestism has always fascinated the British and the L.A. scene is almost as kinky. For this show, the orchestra seats have been ripped from the floor of Broadway's Belasco Theater and small café tables substituted. These are jammed together without regard for comfort or pleasure. Drinks are served throughout the evening, and in the present instance, customers are advised...