Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result was one of Carter's best performances. His unsmiling face looked pale without the makeup he usually wears before TV cameras, his eyelids sagged with fatigue and his hands gripped the lectern tightly. But he spoke in determined and sometimes angry tones, projecting with considerable success the sense of leadership that he has often seemed to lack...
...success of an interdisciplinary committee would rest on its ability to draw on the resources of the entire University community. But faculty with a perspective unique to the Afro-Am Studies department are not now available in the revelant departments of the college. In addition, judging by past performance as well as by affirmative action goals, we can not expect them to be available in the near future...
...Garp" was Irving's first success and he explained that his earlier books "suffered from relevancy" and were too caught up with the news. He continued writing, however, because he had nothing else to do, he said. "Some writers can entertain the possibility of doing something else. I don't have any other options," he added...
...Garp's" success surprised the 158pound former wrestler. "I never expected to have a popular book," Irving added...
...family's agent, have a knack for comic timing, and Wilber drops off-hand insults like time-bombs. Jeffrey Horwitz and Mario Aieta, as the men in the actress's lives who are forever barred from understanding their calling, receive no help from the script, and achieve correspondingly little success...