Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fisk University is fortunate to have Leonard as its president at a time when private black universities are increasing in importance but struggling to maintain themselves financially. Leonard will bring to Fisk the devotion, spirit and diligence necessary to ensure its continued success...
Perhaps More will find that penetrating the mystique that shrouds big names is the only way to make the magazine a financial success. But if that be the way to survive, maybe it would be better if More decided to fold...
...would not be able to fit in easily again at the CBS Washington bureau. "I would doubt my ability to function effectively if reinstated," explained Schorr, who first joined the CBS News staff 23 years ago. "My reinstatement would be a source of tension within an organization whose future success I still care about...
...mostly focusing on young Patrick (Gregory Desmouceaux). Smitten with a schoolmate's mother, he buys her red roses and presents them with trepidation. She is surprised and very pleased, and straightaway tells him to "thank your father." Patrick negotiates his first double date with a similar lack of success. He winds up at the end of the row in the movie theater, his buddy in the middle with his arms around both girls...
Land Mine. The stories-or rather, the collage of perceptions-are told by a woman whose last name is Fain and whose first name may be Jennifer (one friend, at least, calls her Jen). Success seems to have fallen on her from a great height. She traipses obligingly but glumly through a succession of jobs usually thought to be desirable: newspaper reporter, foundation consultant, college teacher, congressional staff worker. She is clearly getting somewhere; where, exactly, and whether it is a place worth being are answers that elude her. "Things," she muses, "have changed very much, several times, since...