Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview after his address, Bowles described the future of radical economics as "very bright." He attributed the recent success of radical economics to the failure of neoclassical theory in solving current problems. "The actual facts of economic life are pushing our view forward," Bowles said...
...COMMON factor uniting all the characters in the story is itself an abstraction--a romantic novel, in which Oki had sought to immortalize his passion for Otoko. The novel was a work of love, and an immediate success. The book had made his career, had meant luxuries for the family and education for his children; but it nearly destroyed his marriage and later cast Otoko into the harsh glare of public curiosity...
Peter F. Clifton '49 said the response to the letter "was a phenomenal success," adding that contributions are still coming...
...adviser, Dominique Vivant Denon, a man so feared for his rapacity that he was known throughout Europe as l'emballeur (the packer), set out to bring back to Paris every portable masterpiece he could lay hands on in conquered territory. This exercise in epic greed was an unqualified success. It assured the dominance of French art for another hundred years...
...promise to give students "earthy vocational skills." What is more important than reconciling the disappointed college-graduate job-seeker to employment below his station is the "question of how we can take advantage of this great ability to educate people, how we can recognize this as a symptom of success," Fisher says. "The forces we're talking about are much greater than the recession. They're secular...