Word: successful
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...irony in her flash appraisal runs through David Herbert Donald's lengthy biography of Wolfe. Where, if indeed they exist, are the proper boundaries between genius and social being? Must a person's success in one category be contingent upon his success in the other...
Wolfe today is regarded as neither literary genius nor social success. Both his writing and his behavior are seen to have suffered from gargantuan excess. Donald, however, reveals a man whose literary genius draws its very strength from social excess, from the ability to experience and emote on a grand scale. He reveals a man who, according to one of his lovers, was "intolerable and wonderful and talked like an angel and was a real son-of-a-bitch...
...industry observers predict that Fox's road to success will be long and hard. Most of the Hollywood community is publicly rooting for the newcomer (largely because it offers another market for programming), but privately, in the words of one producer, "skepticism is running very high. The money in this town is on failure." No one, however, is ready to dismiss Murdoch's bold venture. "It's well financed, it's well conceived, and it's got a guy with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next...
Four years of research went into the passageway under a road near the River Thames, which should help some 10,000 toads to meet their mates in one piece. Puffed up by its initial success, the F.F.P.S. hopes to open several dozen more tunnels at toad crossings all over England. It is already chewing over the idea of opening a terrapin underpass...
Today Ozawa uneasily straddles both worlds. The exemplar of success in classical music, in Japan he is a role model to thousands of young performers. Yet his exalted position is resented by many; to them, he is still the nail that sticks out. In the West, old questions about how deeply he understands music continue to dog him. His detractors write of his "blank interpretations," and indeed Ozawa has always been more effective in Strauss and Stravinsky showpieces than in Beethoven symphonies. Music that demands depth rather than flash taxes him. He has taken up opera in Europe...