Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MIDNIGHT CONCERT was conceived three years ago, when someone decided that a program with "Till Eulenspiegel" and Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" would be much more fun played at midnight. It was a pitch to stonies and straights alike, and was so successful that it was followed the next year with a real gimmick--President Bok narrating an impeccably played "Peter and the Wolf"--which drew an even rowdier and more enthusiastic crowd. The next two midnight programs tried to recapture that success by continuing to take the audience back to its childhood with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice...
This will probably not happen this Christmas, I suppose, although in a year when Chairman Mao shakes hands with Mrs. Marcos and the Mets trade Tug McGraw, how can you tell for sure? The dude with the piano is going to be a success, soon. I feel it in my bones. I do not want to talk to him. Also, the one time I tried to play some hoop this fall, some tough-looking twelve-year-olds chased us off their court, and I didn't make a shot all afternoon. When these people call next week, maybe I will...
Even the pretense that success at Harvard depends on scholarly "merit" may disintegrate, as it did when economic cutbacks forced the GSAS to skip over needy yet more "qualified" applicants. Admissions procedures, personal financial pressures and the imperatives of classroom success all attempt to legitimize the deliberate exclusion of undesirables, most notably minority people, workers and women...
...long stretches. As a way of offering historical perspective on the Mafia (and of warming up his movie), Coppola contrasts Michael's fight for continued control over his inheritance by crosscutting to the story of his father's arrival in this country from Sicily and his first successes in the criminal life. Robert De Niro is excellent as the young Don; Coppola's reconstruction of life in Little Italy around the year 1918 is obviously a work of love as well as research. Somehow, however, it is not as effective as the later story. From the beginning...
Telephone Booth. Early Egyptian and Indian sufferers treated certain skin diseases with some success by swallowing a powder made from a local plant and exposing themselves to sunlight...