Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same was as I did about Harvard. I thought of the South then as being the land of Faulkner--old, subtle, deep, more concerned with ways of living than with achievement. It seemed to me a region haunted by failure and fading beauty--and Harvard, the center of success, was completely alien...
...what the South is now was born out of two things, one evil--slavery and aristocracy--and one tragic--a war. Somehow, over the last hundred years, the evil and the tragedy have become transmuted into a society that appeals to me because of its lack of illusions about success and failure and its emphasis on personal relationships and the manner in which people conduct their lives. The South is also a distinct place still, full of the past, and the North...
...will be expected to have at least a conversational familiarity with Matina Horner's "fear of success" theories. Be able to refute the popular misconception that they developed out of research on Radcliffe students. Fear of failure is unrivaled as a dominant emotion at Harvard and it knows no distinctions of sex. In fact, failure is especially inadmissable for women, who should have an interest in dispelling the belief that Radcliffe women go on to become only well-educated housewives. Radcliffe women have reportedly left less of an imprint on the public arena than Vassar or Wellesley graduates, but this...
However, having achieved success in Harvard's terms, you may also find yourself face-to-face with the reminder, this time from your peers, that if you were a man it would be a cop-out to go to Law School. Only because you are a woman is it a victory. The specter of reverse discrimination may lead you to conclude that some sort of double standard is a fact of life...
...keeping world-wide peace and were geared fundamentally to upholding democracy everywhere, there could be no basic reassessment in Congressional and public forums of purpose and whose ends our policies really serve. Now that even saintly Henry has not been able to succeed or perpetuate the image of success, maybe the United States is ready to give serious consideration to revamping its antiquated, Cold War politics and foreign diplomacy...