Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom. And now, I am as typical a 1969 senior: unhappy with the formal education of Harvard College, loathe to go to graduate school, totally uninterested in business, less concerned about a career than about a life, wanting to create and worrying whether I'm capable, wanting to help and wondering how I can. And always asking myself, if not worrying to myself, whether I'll still feel the same dissatisfactions in five years which I feel...
...argues Bayard Rustin, is the victim of the Negro's love-hate syndrome; the black man tends to vent his anger and frustration on those who have helped him most. The Jew has contributed far more to the cause of civil rights than the gentile. Partly, Jewish liberalism toward the Negro was a product of self-interest: if the Negro could be repressed, then so could Jews. But the Jewish willingness to help others also stems from the abiding generosity of the Hebrew religious tradition?though less well-off Jews sometimes feel far too threatened to share such altruistic sentiments...
...meantime, even if their help is now repudiated, all white Americans, Jews included, must work toward a goal ?the goal of raising the condition of the Negro in American society, thereby eliminating many, if not all, of the causes of black antiSemitism. When that is achieved, the alliance of the two communities, now near the breaking point, should be stronger than ever...
...Preference for Metal. It was a ritual pledge, made in response to urgent requests by European bankers to help quell a new outbreak of speculation. The free-market price of gold had been creeping up for more than a month, partly because of tensions in the Middle East and partly because Kennedy inadvertently raised hopes in December that the new Administration might raise the official gold price. Mindful of Nixon's orders to avoid taking policy positions before the inaugural, Kennedy replied to a question about gold prices by saying that he would "keep all options open." Despite disclaimers...
...remaining five planes, the line has since chartered three Comets from Kuwait Airways, one Boeing 720B from Ethiopian Airlines and another Boeing from Air France. It will also have six months' free use of a Caravelle owned by Morocco's King Hassan II. Other offers to help have come in from Pan American, Lufthansa, KLM and Russia's Aeroflot...