Word: successful
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...largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from India and tried to prevent it. But religion had its customary disastrous effect on politics. Hindus and Muslims despised each other; partition and the bloodshed that followed, says Ziegler, were inevitable...
Ronald Reagan had hoped to go to Bitburg buoyed by an important success in economic diplomacy. Instead, he departed from Bonn for the wreath-laying ceremony smarting from a fresh setback. His 2 1/2 days of discussions in the West German capital with the leaders of six other major industrial powers were always polite and often were even marked by effusive mutual compliments; no one wanted to add a public squabble about economics to the uproar over Bitburg. But there was no disguising the fact that French President Francois Mitterrand blocked Reagan from getting what he most wanted from...
...worked out five or six formulations to the same effect. Mitterrand agreed to communique language that made no mention of any link between trade and monetary conferences, but nothing could get him to set a date for the trade discussions. The French President hinted to reporters that Reagan's success in lining up the other leaders for early talks only "made me more steadfast" in refusing. Finally, there was nothing to do but issue a communique for once allowing disagreement among the summiteers...
There is a phenomenon of public vanishing in America that is poignant and spooky. It is a compact enactment of the American themes of success and failure. Remember Walter Mondale? All spring and summer and fall of 1984, Mondale was a presence in American life, his words, his cadences, his voice and visage and body English all injected electronically into the nation's consciousness. Then November. Poof. Mondale vanished, like the minute explosion of light on the screen when one turns off an old television set after the national anthem--the little death of a star. Mondale reappeared not long...
Some relationships are damaged when the wife's income and prestige outstrip the husband's. Medvene recently counseled a couple, both psychologists, who were unable to deal with that issue. Guilt-ridden, the wife had been rejecting offers to head committees; her humiliated husband meanwhile doubted his own professional success. During therapy, the wife began to assume a more active role in her career while he took up a diversionary interest in music and sculpture...