Word: unsuccessful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conclusion that skill on the playing field is not synonymous with character. There have been scores of books on the superstars of every sport; success Breeds fans. Failure has only a few aficionados, and Jordan is one of the finest. In Auden's phrase, he sings of human unsuccess, and in the song turns case his tories on the defeated into a kind of triumph...
Someone asks whether his success has been a burden. "Less so than unsuccess," he replies. Another member of the audience wants to send her screenplay to an agent. "Should I just address the script?," she presses. "I'd put an address on it, yes." he says. Someone else inquires how he distinguishes writing a play from writing a film script. He makes a few thoughtful remarks, pauses, and then adds, "Also, I write the words 'a film' on the screenplay's title page...
...NOTE TO THE READER: The first page of the rough draft of this column was either lost or Blown Off in the Shop. This is a new version, which I had to write under incredible pressure. I have tried, largely unsuccess-fully as it turns out, to reproduce the "lines" which originally appeared on the lost page Thanks, Marc...
...ascetic lifestyle; he still lives in a modest boardinghouse, wears baggy suits and scuffed shoes and has no known romantic entanglements. But even some of his supporters fear that as his operation becomes institutionalized he may be spreading himself too thin. The Congress Project's relative unsuccess, in fact, may have stemmed directly from Nader's inability to personally supervise the work of the young researchers who put it together, and signs of less than meticulous research have crept into other studies that bear the Nader imprint. All of this gives his critics hope that some day Nader...