Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he was entitled to financial aid. Moore's paper-products company had just gone out of business. More over, although his older daughter had married, the younger one needed money for college. Shouldn't his exwife, who nets $380 a month from her department-store job, help support the two children remaining in his care? Indeed she should, ruled a judge, who ordered her to pay Moore $80 a month for the children. Though such decrees are rare, a number of states now recognize the principle that a woman must pay, in similar circumstances, when the child...
...Lawyers' Committee found no other case in which a Negro was awarded damages from a white law officer in Mississippi. "It's not going to bring back my sight," said Arthur, who now hopes to go into the grocery business, "but it will help." In any case, he may have to wait some time to collect, since Arterbury plans an appeal...
...turned out, no one need have worried. The Devils was cheered at Santa Fe. There was even help from an unexpected source: precisely at the moment when one of Penderecki's characters shouted "God is dead!" there came a clap of thunder and a storm enveloped the theater. The audience was as impressed by the opera as by the incident. But despite its effectiveness, The Devils seemed episodic, eclectic, and the complex Penderecki (pronounced Pen-der-ete-key) score sometimes trod meekly behind the drama instead of forcefully alongside it. What gave absolutely no grounds for complaint were...
...acts superbly. He will sing nearly anything that lies within his vocal range. He is also willing to learn the most complicated role in - by old-fashioned standards - nothing flat. This summer at Santa Fe, he is doing two American premieres (The Devils and Gian Carlo Menotti's Help! Help! The Globolinks) as well as Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte and Puccini's Tosca...
...straight out of Contempt) in which the lovers hear about their involvement in a fatal car crash before it actually occurs. Wexler's sympathies are admittedly with the brutalized young, and he sets out to show the police as almost total villains. In that, he had plenty of help from the cops themselves. But it might have made for less propaganda and better art if he had not presented the conflict as totally one-sided; if he had shown in more detail, for instance, how some of the demonstrators deliberately goaded and provoked the police...