Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before moving to Washington, Chayes served as an executive assistant to Erwin N. Griswald, Langdell Professor of Law Emeritus; as Director of Education and Urban Development in the Action for Boston Community Development: and as a partner in the Boston law firm of Casplar...
Phillips Brooks House: a community action organization. PBH sponsors 13 volunteer programs in Boston and Cambridge ranging from tutoring schoolchildren to visiting prisons...
Jaffe, it seems, hoped depth of character would make up for lack of direction and action in the plot lines. But each attempt at psychological depth, at developing a character or portraying a crucial moment comes off like so much slop thrown at these cardboard figures to keep the reader interested. Jumping from one woman to another and updating us on their lives requires a lot of fast stepping. Jaffe doesn't turn in much of a performance, however. If you want to see the finale, you have to wade through 300 pages of tedium. Expect to be disappointed. There...
...from office to office until you've accomplished your goal. The corridors you'll wait in may be filled with lines of people waiting for audiences, and your tete a tete with an administrator may prove discouraging or unfruitful, but at least you will be taking some form of action. It's better than sitting in your room bemoaning your fate...
...make a difference; of the choices they now perceive; and of ways to change those choices in order to reduce the costs of conflict, to promote one's view of justice, or both. Seeks to develop skills for deciding who should do what tomorrow morning, and for making constructive action more likely...