Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know yet how to assess the success of the women's movement in education." Healey said. "But if we would have to evaluate it now we would be using a male standard of measurement. What we're talking about is a variety of life-style choices. People should be able to determine for themselves what option they choose...
...embarrassing situations," "old wives tales," "famous performers," and "vices and virtues." From these the audience makes their "propositions" which the actors devise into a series of songs and skits spanning the gamut, of entertainment genres from musical comedy, rock, and opera to foreign film festivals and political satire. The success of a show thus depends heavily on the creative feedback of its viewers; ideally, they should come to the show with some ideas in mind so as to avoid offering only the easiest, and most conventional word associations--"abortion," for example has been suggested as "a current social issue" every...
...give out mutual hugs of congratulations and relax briefly before the next show, a total rapport and group assurance seemed to wash over all the anxious tensions and worries of the past two hours, and even those of the show to come. After seven years, the aftermath of a success is a good, familiar feeling...
...trouble getting a good job once he left Bridgewater. I tried to give him confidence, but realized that he had almost no chance because of the soaring unemployment rate and that under the circumstances he might easily revert to criminal behavior. Which could lead you to conclude that the success of a reading program--or any rehabilitation effort inside the prison--depends on what goes on outside the prison...
...twenty years since Edward Steichen's famous exhibition of The Family of Man marked the nadir of a naive photojournalism: the show's enormous worldwide success in the 1950s was just as much a tribute to the acceptability and comprehensibility of photography as a journalistic medium which Life, etc. had build up as it was a tribute to the quality of the pictures. That sort of photojournalism is no longer vital: When The Family of Man approach to photography burnt itself out when it (visually, if not politically) realized its own propnecy. The mass medias's quest for speed...