Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island?but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...
Allen has his own misery, which is sincere and lifelong. It cannot be dissipated by the success of his movies. A shy workaholic who avoids the show-biz whirl and is never "on" in private, he not only talks about death in his films but spends a great deal of time thinking about it. "My real obsessions are religious," he says. "They have to do with the meaning of life and with the futility of obtaining immortality through art. In Manhattan, the characters create problems for themselves to escape. In real life, everyone gives himself a distraction-whether...
...magazine had been founded in 1923 on the faith that busy people would welcome a weekly distillation of their daily news, a concisely written guide that would put headlines in context, and garnish them with TIME'S vivid prose and Luce's strong opinions. Halberstam traces the magazine's success and its development far beyond this early formula...
Princeton controlled the tempo of the game, despite a few lapses in the first half, overcoming the rain and muddy turf with greater success than Harvard...
Students questioned yesterday disputed the success of the architect's attempts to make the building quiet, saying they found the "squeaky" floors distracting. Some students said the $50,000 could be used in better ways, however...