Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silent prayer to mark the passing of a once-popular political cause--Harvard's divestment movement. Let us not hesitate to shed a few tears--but just a few--to show our sympathy for a movement whose self-righteous style could not generate enough popularity among students to achieve success or insure its survival...
Baker was disappointed in those efforts, largely because he commanded as little control over the behavior of U.S. allies as he wielded over the congressional budget process. As criticism of Baker mounted, some wondered whether he was a victim of his early success. Said Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution: "In the beginning he probably got far too much credit, and now he may be getting too much blame...
...especially prominent, and have demonstrated particular staying power: Michael Vanderbyl, 40, and Michael Manwaring, 45. Although they have highly distinct styles, their parallels are striking. Both were born and reared in the Bay Area and educated at California art schools; both are lapsed devotees of European modernism. Despite success, both have kept their offices small. They do have some stylistic moves in common -- both show a fondness for fan shapes and silhouettes, and both have recently looked to turn-of-the-century Architect Josef Hoffmann for inspiration -- yet both have survived several years of extravagant attention without sinking into hack...
...have ranged from a call for a "smoke-free society by the year 2000" to militant advocacy of the rights of deformed infants. Koop, who delights in the gold braid of the traditional Surgeon General's uniform, has also promoted some idiosyncratic causes: he recently tried, with only partial success, to revive moribund regulations requiring most members of the Public Health Service to wear their military-style uniforms on duty...
...course it turned out that pictures of Helga, far from being secret, had been reproduced and exhibited for several years without evoking any special interest; that far from knowing nothing of them, Betsy Wyeth -- whose astute managerial sense has had much to do with her husband's success over the years -- owned quite a few; that there was no love affair; that the collector was a newsletter publisher named Leonard E.B. Andrews, who planned to reap ^ vast profits from selling reproductions of Helga's pale and sturdy torso; and that the whole thing had been cooked up among...