Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marian Powers, Carla Lyddan and Mimi Olszewska, who find that unwrinkling readers' brows can put a furrow or two in their own. They do not, however, ghost term papers for students (January and February bring a flood of letters that start: "Please tell me everything about . . ."), help readers seeking financial advice or other special favors, or act as an answering service for every kind of request. If a request relates to TIME'S news coverage, however, they do their best to help, whether that involves merely making a telephone call, digging in Time Inc.'s Bureau...
Generous Response. Like the World Council, U.S. churches and synagogues are tending to react to the reparations demand by reviewing and enlarging their social-work programs. Thus, the American Jewish Committee rejected the "Black Manifesto" but is considering a national ad hoc group to help the poor...
Hurting Consumers. Construction costs are also coming under attack from other directions. The Associated General Contractors of America, whose members build most of the nation's roads, dams, factories and skyscrapers, has devised a strike insurance plan that may go into effect next year. "It would help stiffen the resistance of a little guy who might otherwise cave in," says William E. Dunn, executive director of the A.G.C. Labor Secretary George Shultz has been meeting since May with Harvard Economist John Dunlop and other experts to explore ways to contain construction costs. Shultz hopes to induce contractors and construction...
Lending Is Not Enough. To the policyholder, the most noticeable result has been that his insurance agent now frequently tries to sell him mutual-fund shares. About 150 of the insurance companies have bought mutual funds, started their own or concluded agreements to have their insurance subsidiaries help sell the shares of independent funds. Ten years ago, most life-insurance salesmen were discouraged from selling mutual-fund shares at all. Last year, the National Association of Securities Dealers has registered at least 15,000 life-insurance salesmen, about 7% of the total number...
...often seemed to be acting before a mirror rather than a camera. In Staircase he is acting before the broken mirror of a man's life, and he evolves a poignancy that is wonderfully real. At crucial moments in the film, he is given to saying "God help us all, and Oscar Wilde." Wilde would not have liked Staircase. It is not elegant. It is not witty. It lacks his opulent depravity. But in its modest and unassuming way it shows that Wilde's martyrdom has finally affected the conscience of humanity...