Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under normal circumstances, one liberates oneself through quiet thought or tremendous internal crises. Loud acid rock may help some people, it may hinder others...
History has often slighted such moderates, the well-meaning, badly organized Social Democrats in particular, perhaps because they ultimately proved to be the losers. Yet Watt makes a persuasive case that, given a little help from the Allies and their own countrymen, they might have steered Germany in the direction of a viable democracy...
...from the astute theorist Rosa Luxemburg that revolution was premature, the Spartacists kept urging revolt in the streets. In January 1919, they got what they asked for: an uprising. The desperate Socialists, who had done their best to cooperate with the far left, turned to the far right for help. Remnants of the Kaiser's army, informally organized into Freikorps, marched into Berlin, ruthlessly smashing the rebellion and executing Spartacist leaders, including Luxemburg...
Toperoff is now a college teacher. For years, though, horses were his Harvard and his Yale. At the age of thirteen, to help finish school, he took a job mucking the stalls of race horses at a New York track. Soon he was lost in the miracle of watching a chosen horse break loose from the pack and thunder home first across the finish line...
Later, in the Army, and afterwards, working in a paint factory, he saves his earnings to bet the horses. He spends all his spare hours on handicapping systems or figuring ways to beat the odds. Friends help. Nick Carter, a paint labeler, explains to him: "Never bet a slow starter from an inside post position in a sprint." Mulligan, a caricature Irishman who is handicap expert for the International News Service, instructs him in the folly of following "expert" advice-by not putting money down on his own published selections. "Do you think anybody who knows what...