Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foundation awarded $1,882,000 to 312 scholars, scientists, and artists throughout the Western Hemisphere and the Philippines. The grants are made to assist the Fellows in their scholastic and scientific research and cover both travelling and living expenses. The average grant is over...
...divide the teams into bucket brigades to clean up the barrio. Soon the whole community joins in, digging, hammering and painting, installing sewers, sidewalks, water systems. ACCION workers scrounge around for bricks, pipe and cement, also hold classes in reading and sewing. On major projects they occasionally get an assist from the Venezuelan government and the Alliance for Progress...
...orientation to this problem that is far more healthy and humanistically progressive than the approach of those I call "myth-makers." "Negritude" is not, of course, a scientific category; it provides no guideposts for scientific inquiry into why African cultures solved as they did. It seeks merely to assist the Negro living in contact with modern society to overcome the destructive or debilitating effects of a cultural inferiority complex. Thus, Aimee Cesaire, the French West Indian who coined the term "Negritude," could write the following lines in 1929, without any doubt in his own mind that he, as a Negro...
Doesn't the oaf who wrote the article on men's clothing [Feb. 28] realize that men's fashions originate in London (with an occasional assist from Rome) rather than Seventh Avenue? Fashion as such is not for the masses, who look alike everywhere, but for the very few who know how to dress because they are born...
...made only once in a lifetime, is something of a cross between a revival meeting and an extended group therapy session. Students in the three-day course are guided by a priest, a lay leader known as the rector, and ten or twelve veteran Cursillistas (Cursillo graduates), who assist in giving the lectures and helping out with the household chores...