Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strauss agreed, nothing that "The key to our success was the strength of the positive mental attitude of and our sense of cameraderie between both the players and the coach...
Estee Lauder's is a classic American success story: the child of poor immigrants makes good through ingenuity and hard work. But until now that has not been grand enough for this heroine. Lee Israel's unauthorized biography might not exist except for the heavy makeup job Lauder applied to her origins. It is also possible that the lady's own gutsy book would not have seen print without the challenge of Israel's research...
...Corona section of Queens. Israel gleefully supplies many more humble details, but Lauder gives what is probably the most important one: as a child, little Josephine Esty Mentzer was ashamed of her parents' shaky English and "their old-country ways." That too is a common strand in the American success saga. People who go back to the Corona days remember a pretty, lively girl with "gorgeous, gorgeous" skin. From the time Esty decided that something might be done with Uncle John's skin formulas, she worked tirelessly behind cramped counters, in the waiting rooms of store buyers, pushing, touching, smearing...
Wanda: A lot of them talk about getting the right "comfort zone." That's the amount of emotional space we need. Thank God--It's Monday! or How to Prevent Success from Ruining Your Marriage says that a husband "may feel his wife's comfort zone is too close for comfort." And Carol Botwin, author of Is There Sex After Marriage?, says that when someone steps too far into our comfort zone, we withdraw, sometimes sexually...
Freeport (pop. 6,000) is a former shoe factory town 20 miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...