Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ring sold close to 500,000 copies in the U.S. Scholars and critics had at first admired his books, while tracing down literary influences that ranged from Buchan (the chases, the praise of friendship) to Beowulf. Then, with such popularity, the story was denounced as escapist fantasy, its success owlishly attributed to "irrational adulation" and "nonliterary cultural and social phenomena." Attempts to straitjacket Tolkien's story as contemporary allegory were updated too. In the '50s, critics averred, Sauron was really Joseph Stalin and fumbling, heroic Frodo was the West...
With the advent of mass higher education, a bachelor's degree is not worth what it once was--it has lost its scarcity value. Even the Harvard A.B. is not the magic carpet to success and fortune that some people once thought it was. Nowadays it certainly isn't the sure-fire ticket into a law or medical school--which it once really...
...issue will probably be resolved on some middle ground: giving pre-meds more help with their particular problems, doing nothing at all for the potential blue-collar workers in each Harvard class, and cooperating with the professional schools in devising more and more quantitative ways to measure each students success...
HARVARD'S BRIGHT new system for voting its stock on controversial shareholder resolutions enters its second year this Fall, with its creators convinced of its success, its detractors convinced it was tarnished from its inception, and large numbers of uninterested onlookers apparently convinced it doesn't make much difference anyway...
Today, if the powerful Hollywood moviemakers who rode the crest of the "road" phenomenon to success at the box office wanted to revive this form of film entertainment, they could well begin right here in Cambridge. The movie would be called "The Road to Moscow," and it would integrate the forties travel motif that brought Hope, Crosby and Lamour fame and fortune with a seriousness of purpose quite alien to the fluff and whimsy that characterized earlier efforts...