Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...store closed at ten o'clock, the picketers tallied the two, three, or five shoppers they had each turned away, added to the total a few who might have seen the picket line from the parking lot and gone to shop elsewhere--and counted the evening a relative success...
...should be axiomatic that the ultimate success or failure of black capitalism will depend on the blacks themselves. Negroes, so long denied opportunities, have a strong argument for special help. At some point, other businessmen are bound to complain that such aid gives Negroes an unfair competitive advantage. But for now, black capitalism has proved to be a beneficent form of black power, moving gradually toward the kind of green power that has led every other group upward in American society...
...tradition of O'Casey and O'Neill, Playwright Frank Gilroy explored his own origins in the bleak, painfully honest drama, The Subject Was Roses. This highly successful film version shows why it was both a popular and a critical success on Broadway and why it went on to win the 1965 Pulitzer Prize. Though Gilroy's craftsmanship is maladroit, he has a musician's ear for the lilt and scrape of Irish-American dialogue, and an unblinking eye that sees his characters whole, in the light of common...
...taken me further and further away from blues. The blues is where I belong." After seven years on the road he feels he deserves a vacation. Why so much touring? "We tour to make enough money not to tour." And Clapton can't conceal his amazement over Cream's success. "When we first found out we were going to tour the States I just couldn't believe it. The audiences here are just fantastic. We've done some of our best playing here...
Prince first staked claim to his present heights with Cabaret, a musical that owed its success by and large to his conception and staging. But Cabaret had a lackadaisical book and some inept casting that tied his hands somewhat; it was not the triumph for this producer-director that it might have been...