Word: successful
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Solidarity is exactly the image he is trying to forge. Combining social issues with union issues, Bozzotto attempted, with some success, to form an alliance with students, an alliance he hopes will exert more force on a stubborn Harvard management than unionism alone. His foray into the divestment world and into the media spotlight were calculated manuevers to gain the support of student and faculty activists, observers speculate. Thus, Bozzotto has pushed the union movement, with mixed success from an isolated facet of the Harvard experience into mainstream anti-Harvard administration...
Hmmmm. Does this pattern sound familiar? It's merely the road to academic success followed by the wise liberal arts student at Harvard. No need to resort to anything so crude as sleeping with your section leader or depositing large checks in a numbered account at Bay Banks. Sidle up to your most prominents professors and tell them what they want to hear. If you have any wits at all, hitching your wagon to enough academic engines can lead to a summer job, fellowships, and best of all, hot reccomendations for the grad school or job of your choice...
...cause, creed or ideals; that's called stubbornness. Integrity is having enough self-respect not to debase oneself before one's betters, no matter how much one might admire the person or could use his help. Displaying integrity may slow one's course on the fastrack of success, but it's the only defense against the kind of rationalization that can turn an ambitious person into the tool of some fashionable doctrine...
...energy chasing another set of characters around, the truth (or falsity) of these pictures must be looked for in the staging and cutting of the subsequent shoot-outs and chases. In judging those, the brain gratefully surrenders to the viscera. In a sense, these films, so dependent for their success on mastery of movie technique, represent one of cinema's purest forms. And all action movies may aspire to be judged not on the basis of how well they imitate life, but on how well they imitate the genre's ideal form--a Road Runner cartoon...
Still, the firm's flagship publication, the four-year-old USA Today, is far from being a financial success. While its circulation is a robust 1.4 million, the paper attracts little national advertising. As a result, analysts estimate, it lost $85 million before taxes last year, bringing the total since the paper was founded to some $340 million. Nonetheless, Neuharth remains confident that it can be turned around. Curley probably shares that optimism. One reason: he was USA Today's first editor...