Word: companion
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Offering their own substitute for the poverty program, the G.O.P. has introduced in the House a bill that would strip all programs but Community Action from Shriver's "fuddle factory" and turn them back to departments already equipped to run them. A companion bill offers industry a 7% tax credit for initiating job-creating training programs. These measures, claim its cosponsors, Representatives Charles Goodell of New York and Minnesota's Quie, would "completely restructure the popgun war on poverty" and replace "the mangled mishmash of overlapping, conflicting and wasteful programs" with more effective ones-all at a saving...
...Moran was, in fact, more than Churchill's doctor. From the time Sir Winston became Prime Minister of a besieged Britain in 1940 to the last, curt medical bulletin ("Shortly after 8 a.m., Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home"), Charles McMoran Wilson was his confidant and companion. He traveled 140,000 miles with Churchill, watched him grapple with Stalin and Roosevelt, nursed him through pneumonia in the North African campaign and the series of strokes that punctuated and palsied his postwar comeback as Prime Minister...
...lecture is only a demonstration of "how a person thinks about a problem," says Schorske, and the lecturer should always assume the student is "informed, intelligent, and committed. You then talk to him as a peer?as your companion in learning?and he begins to behave like one." Schorske does not, however, believe in "being buddy-buddy, or in a libidinous relationship such as they have at Sarah Lawrence." The teacher should be neither "lofty nor authoritarian," but his enthusiasm for communicating a subject should command "a natural respect...
...have to provide a well-written feeling for the place, a lot of color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides to four European cities, the South of France and the Greek Islands. Another, less poetic but more of a guide, is H. V. Morton's lively historical tour of Spain, Italy, Britain and Ireland...
...Lively Companion. "I bought the Herald Tribune eight years ago because I believe deeply in the value of articulate, intelligent discussion of our world," wrote Whitney, almost as if he were expecting the imminent demise of his paper. "I wanted it to continue to be what I always thought it was: a lively companion to a wide circle of friends. I did not buy it to make myself wealthy or famous or powerful. You cannot buy the traditions and principles of this newspaper; you can only lend them a hand toward survival. That effort has not been completely successful...