Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shriver's OEO is a direct spiritual heir of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which was organized in a period of national convulsion, when 15 million Americans were out of work and distress was the norm. Shriver's war, though conducted in an era of less obvious urgency, is actually more complex, more challenging and more ambitious. For, unlike Depression-era make-work programs, it aims not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty but also to cure its causes as well. "It will be impossible to end completely the culture of poverty until opportunity...
...shaping programs the same idealism and frenetic urgency with which he infused the Peace Corps. At the suggestion of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, a longtime friend of the President's who was then a Washington lawyer, OEO was set up as a separate executive office with direct administrative control over three of the war's eight major programs (Community Action, the Job Corps and VISTA) and supervisory responsibility for others at the federal, state and local levels...
Seltzer said that a student in Humanities 105, a small course whose members will study a play and then produce it on the main stage, would be permitted to apply for such an independent study if he were chosen to direct the play connected with the course...
...first of the Fall plays will be Gammer Gurton's Needle, a farcical Tudor comedy by the anonymous Mr. S. Master of Arts. Steven H. Kaplan '68 will direct this--and possibly The Friar and the Pardoner, a short interlude by Thomas Heywood--in mid-October...
...Presidential Government Barney Frank does not condemn is the author's writing style, which admittedly is: elight, Frank does examine and refute Burns' assumptions with as much eloquence and force as any of the reviewers who have panned the book. As for Burns' prescription for the federal government to direct a program of "cultural uplift," Frank reports "the tentative conclusion that the equality of my life is none of he government's goddamned business...