Word: successful
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...raising new doubts and suspicions, Miss Woods' testimony sharply nipped any budding success of the President's ongoing Operation Candor, which is aimed at explaining away his multiple Watergate woes. Her statements posed a new threat to Nixon's survival in office. For if Miss Woods' story is shown to be untrue, the inescapable conclusion would be that at least one of the subpoenaed Nixon tapes has been deliberately and criminally altered. Since the President has sworn that those recordings were in "my sole personal control," he presumably would be legally responsible for any such destruction of evidence...
...dinner in the State Dining Room with 25 Democratic Congressmen, mostly from the South, was no smashing success either. One listener described Nixon as "taut and extremely tense, gesturing wildly." North Carolina's Ike Andrews found Nixon relaxed and jovial but the situation awkward. Said he: "We were guests in his home?it makes it difficult to ask him questions. The first question was about the Middle East, and he took 21 minutes to answer it. There were a couple more innocuous questions, then somebody said politely, 'Thank you for this pleasant evening, but most of us thought...
...good voice, Eden Murray's real ability lies less in singing than in acting. She plays Buttercup with a (stuffed) belly-slapping assurance which is realized by her confidence and maturity as an actress. Since Buttercup is the glue that joins together the outlandish plot of Pinafore any successful production must rely heavily on the actress playing the part. Eden Murray's Buttercup is a major portion of this Pinafore's success...
...ROLE OF THE Lord Admiral Sir Joseph Porter K.C.B. is one of the best in the play, for it lends itself to exaggeration and overacting in a play that relies on those elements for its success. The Lord Admiral is meant to be played as an old man, clearly unfit for marriage with Josephine, and to accentuate the absurdity of a landlubber in such a post he is usually played as a distinctly contrasting character to the manly crew of the Pinafore. Jeffrey Davies limp-wrists his way to great applause, mincing about the stage in white tights and giggling...
Kilson is certainly mistaken in linking acculturation with academic success. Afro-American culture does not inherently reject academic achievement. Though any culture can be shaped to promote anti-intellectual and anti-achievement values, black students at Harvard have not promoted either. Their cultural activities are grounded in their commitment to maintain links between themselves, as future members of professional classes, and other rungs of black society...