Word: assists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mess. Most of the 300 teachers had educations equivalent only to a Stateside fifth grade. Teaching for the 5,500 pupils was supposed to be in English, "but the teacher's own English was unintelligible. It was merely a case of the blind leading the blind." With an assist from Ohio's Democratic Representative Michael J. Kirwan (whose son John is assistant director of the U.S. Department of Interior office responsible for overseeing American Samoa), Lee wangled $1,600,000 from Congress...
Born in 1962, with an inspirational assist from visiting U.S. Beatnik Allen Ginsberg, Calcutta's Hungry Generation is a growing band of young Bengalis with tigers in their tanks. Somewhat unoriginally they insist that only in immediate physical pleasure do they find any meaning in life, and they blame modern society for their emptiness. On cheaply printed paper, they pour forth a torrent of starkly explicit erotic writings, most of them based on their own exploits ("In the Taj Mahal with My Sister") or on dreams. "My theme is me," says Hungry Poet Shaileshwar Ghose, 26, a schoolteacher...
...excessive respect to the antic Hollywood tradition of turning bad novels into worse movies. Herman Wouk's 1962 bestseller about a young novelist's spectacular career seemed to be written with one eye on Thomas Wolfe and one eye on an eventual film sale, but this foresighted assist did not save the movie from ineptitude...
...chemistry professor from Japan who has done postgraduate work under Fieser will assist him with the examinations...
Admittedly Schwartz gets a big assist from his actors, who are uniformly good. It is worth going just to see Kay Bourne. But Schwartz himself must get some of the credit for recognizing how fascinating even the simplest gesture can be, if well executed. I think, in fact, he was so fascinated he staged The Ladder to play to slowly; but he had the right idea...