Rodney Square and the former courthouse are considered an urban planning triumph of John J. Raskob, a leading DuPont executive who, along with Pierre S. du Pont, was a developer of the Empire State Building.
"The Plan" (Triumph, $24.95), by David Kaplan, is a chronicle of the project to turn "one of the worst organizations in baseball" into "a dynasty in the making". Kaplan starts with the 2009 purchase of the franchise by Tom Ricketts, and the subsequent wooing of Theo Epstein, the general manager behind two titles for the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox.
For Mayor McKenna, a drive through town is a chance to relive municipal planning triumphs.
The security plan triumphed.
Like most sensible serious writers, Gaddis never actually planned for his "triumph" to be posthumous; nor was he trying to write books that would be considered unreadable (usually by people who hadn't read them).
No. I'm not going to be pigeonholed.' I don't know where I got the confidence to say that to a major manager who was planning my triumphs.
A huge rally to commemorate the bus-fare triumph is planned for June 19th, this time to agitate for a bigger prize: universal free public transport.These demands are either too narrow or too radical to impress most Brazilians, who are consequently less willing to tolerate the considerable inconvenience caused by those who make them.
Carnival has cancelled more than a dozen planned voyages aboard the Triumph, while acknowledging that the crippled ship had other mechanical problems in the weeks before the fire.
It held Sam's "chief [End Page 129] treasure," his cooking utensils, a box of salt, a supply of tobacco, flint and tinder for starting fires, woolen hose, linen, and a number of small things that Frodo had forgotten, that Sam planned to produce in triumph when Frodo asked for them on the trail (FR, II, iii, 293).
He had taken Paris by storm in previous years with a volley of triumphs and planned Dom Sébastien as an impressive and innovative artistic statement.
Part of his initiation, Mr. Rechnitz said, was "learning how to run a restaurant, which is nothing short of a nightmare". And as for the brewing end, he added, "much as I like to think this is a bunch of college boys doing what they like to do, this is a business and not a very tidy business". Still, he is planning a second Triumph, in Red Bank, his home town.
