Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bored thousands who sit in their plush offices, protected by a benefit program that only an affluent society looking for tax advantages could imagine, your Second Acts Essay [March 8] is exciting and challenging. Cutting the umbilical cord to the big mother corporation is hard, but in most cases, it does open up a whole new life. After 18 years with a fine company, I have made the change. Your article is reassuring...
...even an owner in most of those areas any more . . ."). Gordon's son doesn't sound repentent, merely perplexed and a bit hurt that the family's attempt to be socially relevant ("The School of Nursing appealed to my father--a gift of the type that would benefit the community in general") was so hostilely received...
...real tragedy is not, of course, that Harvard will be forced to lower traditional academic requirements to benefit from black assistance. The paucity of first-rate black social scientists is just a barometer of the white racism which the Riot Commission documented so vividly. Harvard could private itself with skilled black faculty members--and do a service to the nation as well--by actively recruiting graduate students not only from prestigious universities, but from less demanding all-Negro schools...
...canned tomato symbolizes the artificial split which man has created between "nature" and "culture." Man cooked meat, for example, because it stayed edible longer; the process had a rational benefit...
...ritual was extended to cooking food even when no benefit was gained--when, in fact, as in cooking carrots, benefits were lost, such as texture and nutritional value. Cooking came to embody the taboo that one must do what is controlled, is civilized; one cannot allow the "natural" or the instinctive...