Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concluded by saying that the only way to fashion a livable present would be to find a set of goals different from the ethic of competition for success and status. These new "humane goals," he said, would lead to a society "less competitive and less likely to get involved in war and racial conflict...
...Ackerman said that Americans have discovered that "our image of success has had little in it that bears on the quality of life. Our goal has been to make the grade . . . Rarely does a person who has arrived socially and financially stop scrambling in order to enjoy life...
...McCarthy ("I love you so". . .). Some labor through metaphorical complexities. Stalin, for instance, begins botanically, switches to a feline metaphor ("What shot him clawing up the trunk of power?") and finally reaches a fine physiological line, "his intimates dying like the spider-bridegroom?/ The large stomach could only chew success...
...else fails with such devastating charm, with such splendid success. Of all the failed Irishmen, none carries down the broken standard of his race more convincingly than the failed Irish priest. Dublin Novelist and Playwright Richard Power has written a funny, rueful little classic about the last days of 63-year-old Father Conroy, whose sudden dying is less a natural act than a winsome acknowledgment of his own obsolescence-and perhaps that of his country as well...
...loafers-to recognize in him their kindred spirit. He has not even been able to fail grandly. The one rebel he has deliciously identified with, a protégé who once ran away with the canon's silver, has ended up by becoming a trivial middle-aged success in America...