Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, the success of the Jewish sector of the economy--traceable partly to remarkable dedication but more importantly to the modern ways of doing and thinking about things the immigrants had brought with them from Europe--made the Arab majority of Palestine's population less and less sure that the future belonged to them, and more and more restive with their prospects...
...Sendak's first published illustrations appeared in a children's book called The Wonderful Farm. Success started a year later when he illustrated Ruth Krauss's popular A Hole Is to Dig. But it was the books he both wrote and illustrated that moved him to the top of the anemic children's book field. Most widely read is Where the Wild Things Are (1963). It is the story of naughty Max, who is sent to bed supperless for, among other things, chasing the dog with a fork. Clad in his "wolf pajamas," Max petulantly transforms...
...Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and the price of this new edition is commendably...
...himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined dream audience, then lapsing further into a fantasy version of the real world in which he is forced into a shotgun marriage with Typically English Evie. While he is working his way up the executive ladder of success, we follow Littlechap on his business trips around the world as he enjoys the pleasures of Glorious Russian Anya, Typische Deutsche Ilse, and All-American Ginnie...
...SUCCESS DOES come in the end, but too late: Both of his daughters are married and pregnant (not necessarily in that order--it "runs in the family") and his wife has deserted him. Alone once more, it is now that Littlechap realizes his mistake of loving only himself. And then magically, we are transported back into his original fantasy setting, the equivalent of Littlechap's "real" world. For as he explains, the most beautiful thing about a circle is that it has no end and no beginning: "'What's so important about that?' you might ask...well, at least...