Word: successful
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Pusey blamed the deficiency on Harvard's failure to emphasize faith as much as it did academic success. But, members of the Class of 1960 recall, Harvard was not to blame. If they suffered from a lack of passion, they say, it was because there was a lack of anything to be passionate about...
...publishing success of that scope calls for a sequel, and after 16 years, Harris, 75, and his wife of 28 years, Journalist and Lecturer Amy Bjork Harris, 56, are now out with OK II under the slightly cautious title Staying OK (Harper & Row; $15.95). The effort is partly a restatement of the first book's discussion of the therapy known as transactional analysis and partly a collection of homey tips on how to apply transactional insights to daily life. Says Amy Harris: "This might be thought of as a recipe book, as opposed to a book on the theory...
...wasn't until my first album came out and my father started hearing my songs on the radio that he stopped asking me questions. I think now he has some conception of my success. He reads about me and people bother him and he has to change his phone number all the time. All of a sudden he's popular, and my brothers and sisters are popular in school because of their association. If he didn't know then, he knows now. He still works for General Dynamics. He's an optics and defense engineer, and he makes...
AMBITION. I am ambitious, but if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. I am not surprised by my success because it feels natural. When I was younger I never said, "O.K., this is the plan. I'm going to be a dancer and that's going to lead to singing and that's going to lead to acting." My calculation was that I knew I had to apply myself and work. And that devotion -- and that ambition and that courage -- was going to take me to the next step. So, that...
...Amersfoort youth rally: "I have never seen anything like that." John Paul's four-day Dutch sojourn indicated that there are indeed distinct limits to the power of his personal charisma and that his attempt to reconcile Dutch Catholics with his conservative agenda for the church has had minimal success...