Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While pointing out the problems that the country faces, TIME'S editors are happy to be able to offer a generous helping of what many think of as at least a partial remedy for the ills of the world: poetry. This week the entire Books section is devoted to a thorough survey of contemporary U.S. poetry-a look at the modern school and what has been developing over the past decade. All the reviews were written by Contributing Editor George Dickerson, himself a poet, whose work has been published in a variety of magazines, including Mademoiselle...
...public official has been spent here in this building," he said. "For 38 years, since I worked in that gallery as a doorkeeper in the House of Representatives, I have known these halls and I have known most of the men pretty well who walked them." The Congress, always generous to its own, responded warmly...
...transit ($153 million this year, v. $4.1 billion for roads). Without costing the taxpayer an extra penny, it could multiply this sum 13 times simply by diverting half the money it spends for roads to transit lines. To improve the civic order, the Nixon Administration could also grant more generous funds for planning and esthetic improvements, going so far as to deny federal grants for such things as sewage plants to municipalities that continue to ignore the environment. A little money here would go a long way. Almost any amelioration would be valuable...
...make good on all these claims would obviously exhaust even the most generous fiscal dividend that Charles Schultze has projected. But the President can still find some money for key social needs. The fact is that the federal budget can stand some slimming. Not as much as Americans sometimes think is wasted-but a good deal is. Not as much as Americans sometimes suppose is going into absurd projects-though too much is. Money is being spent on programs that, by comparison with priority needs, are secondary or of relatively minor importance. Someone is always hurt when a program...
Abram said he was glad the demonstration had ended without violence. "The fact that violence had been avoided and the students have vacated the premises makes possible a voluntary, generous and speedy response by the university to their legitimate and deeply felt needs as black men and women in a predominantly white society," Abram said...