Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masses, passions, oratorios and a large share of the 350 cantatas he is believed to have written (of which 224 survive). Yet Bach's listeners remained unimpressed. At the first performance of his St. Matthew Passion, one puritanical woman in the congregation cried out in dismay: "Heaven help us! It might be an opera...
...Pepperlander manages to escape. White-mustachioed Old Fred climbs into the Yellow submarine (which is inexplicably parked on the summit of an Aztec pyramid) and takes off to bring somebody-anybody-to help. He ends up in Liverpool and finds the Beatles. After a voyage through some indeterminate fantasy land of Outer Space or Sea Bottom, inhabited by terrors, demons and malevolent monsters, they make it back to Pepperland and vanquish the Meanies with Beatlemusic and LOVE...
...help finance their spending, consumers borrowed more and saved less in 1968. From the year's second quarter to the third quarter, personal savings fell from an abnormally high 7.5% of after-tax income to 6.3%. In the third quarter, installment loans rose at a record annual rate of nearly $9 billion. And for installment buyers, as well as for businessmen, the availability of credit is far more important than its interest cost...
...tends to read his books now with the same bemused affection with which one watches the old Henry Fonda version of Grapes. It was precisely this quality of painful and wistful tenderness that Bonnie and Clyde conjured up in its visions, shot through gauze, of migrant Okies offering brief help to the murderers...
...trying to help is Lionel Rubinoff, an associate professor of philosophy at Toronto's York University. For Rubinoff, the image of evil has never been farther away than the nearest mirror. That individual man is both the creator and perpetrator of evil is hardly a new idea, and Rubinoff acknowledges his indebtedness to thinkers from Plato to Sartre. It is, however, in the analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that the assumption underlying The Pornography of Power is most readily grasped. Of Stevenson's portrayal of the ambivalence of human nature, Rubinoff...