Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Education should be a process of developing the individual's capacities rather than bringing him up to the standards of a particular school," he said. "Few, if any, artists attain success by studying basic principles...
...Fair Deal has run into a strong foul wind from Dixie. The noisome success of the filibuster means not only the postponement of civil rights legislation, but a severe loss in prestige for Truman Democrats. Perhaps more important, the fears that Senate Torics on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line would join forces to balk Administration action have been sadly justified...
Capote has a harder time with adult motives and emotions; he almost never represents them with success. The life of maturity, as rendered in these stories, is a kind of macabre carnival in which the characters float, entranced, from one sensational rousing to another, and all the sideshows are put on by the powers of darkness. Figures that symbolize evil, dissolution and death are either beautiful or hypnotic; ordinary grownups are scornfully and crudely caricatured. All this involves a good deal of hectic overwriting. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), won loud...
After a brief, unhappy career as a wine salesman, Garrick wheedled his way on to the stage. He was an almost immediate success. At the age of 24 he revolutionized English acting with his performance of Colley Gibber's version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style. They had recited, but he acted...
...success of American aid to Europe is helping to "disintegrate" the Soviet bloc of satellites, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, told an informal forum of Liberal Union members last night...