Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy to see that it's still possible for a young man, operating under what remains of the free-enterprise system, to make a success of farming. However, let's not forget that this success is largely built on the increasing concentration of a limited and highly vital resource (land) in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. Now I'm wondering how soon it will be before moated castles, surrounded by hovels for the serfs, begin to sprout on those precious acres...
...fish was once a common Indian fertilizer, but it had been driven out of the river by the textile mills, and this newcomer was the first big success of a three-year restoration program...
...book, which described the easygoing, neurosis-free island way of life and suggested that the Western attitude toward sex could be relaxed without endorsing promiscuity, was an instant success. Many of the young researcher's colleagues condemned her way of reaching conclusions from observed evidence, which Mead called "disciplined subjectivity," and the quasi-novelistic style in which the book was written. But students snapped it up, partly because its ideas interested them, often because, as the author briskly explained, "I wrote it in English...
...beings might look like. In Superman, they will want to see if modern movie technology can make a man fly convincingly. "The film stands or falls on whether the characters appear to fly," says Terence Stamp, who plays the villainous General Zod. "If they do, the picture is a success." By Stamp's definition, at any rate, the movie will be a smash. Superman not only flies better and faster than any bird or plane, but he does aerial acrobatics that would cause an eagle to fasten its seat belt...
...craving for standards of social behavior is obvious in the sheer heft of mail to advice columnists and in the success of table-manner classes for children in 800 department stores around the nation. Enrollment...