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Yet the nation failed to parlay its biggest public-relations success--the October 1995 Million Man March --into greater influence and membership.
He moved on to PBS, and, during the Watergate summer of 1973, partnered with MacNeil to parlay PBS' weakness (a lack of resources to dig for stories) into strength.
Yet in his own era he could parlay "leadership" symbolism into a pair of landslide victories.
Moreover, the Republicans hold out hope that they can parlay these principles into good politics by persuading the public that Clinton's actions merit impeachment.
No black writer roughly of Ellison's generation--not Richard Wright, not Langston Hughes, not Zora Neale Hurston--was able to parlay one novel into a position of being a respected critic and theorist of American literature.