Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leftists had unity problems of their own. Paradoxically, but not surprisingly, the first-round success of the Communists and Socialists bade fair to spoil their second-round chances...
Annemarie's success story was as schmaltzy as a Viennese operetta. Born to a poor mountain-farm family in Klein-Arl near Salzburg, she was the sixth of eight children. When "Annemie" was 4, her father whittled her first pair of skis. "From then on," says her mother, "I hardly saw Annemie during the day. She even skipped breakfast to make a few runs before school began." She paid at best only minimal attention to her studies during her nine years of schooling, much preferring to test, and often beat the boys in climbing, skiing, even schoolyard brawling...
That spirit carried her through her one major setback so far: failure to win in the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo. The Austrians went into that competition confident of success, and Annemie was expected to pick off a gold medal or two with little trouble. The team's morale was destroyed, however, the controversial disqualification of Star Skier Karl Schranz (TIME, Feb. 14, 1972), and Annemarie had to settle for a pair of silver medals. After that setback, she thought of giving up skiing, but the mood lasted only a short time. Then she threw herself into her harsh...
...latest is Sondheim's most brilliant accomplishment to date. That includes the lyrics for such past hits as West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) and the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962). Night Music's success rests on Sondheim's precious fancy, which allowed him to dare to compose the entire musical in ¼ time-or multiples thereof (6/8 and 9/12 are some of the other meters employed). For good measure, in both senses of the word, Sondheim has also thrown in such ancient techniques as canons...
...Coley began injecting patients with mixed bacterial toxins to induce responses that might alter the course of the malignancy, and without fully understanding what he was doing, succeeded. In 1893, he injected his toxin into a 16-year-old boy with inoperable cancer and was rewarded with a demonstrable success: the tumor shrank and, over a period of a few months, disappeared. He treated some 250 other patients who also improved and survived for another five to 72 years. But despite the results, Coley's work, which was far ahead of its time, generally went unrecognized...