Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough, said the commission. More federal funds must be provided for counseling potential college students and guiding them toward higher education. The Government must also pay for a talent search among ill-prepared students from second-rate colleges who have the intellect for graduate studies, and subsidize studies to help them qualify...
...whites in a student body of 2,400. Gregory Taylor, now a senior, resented his classification as a "basic" student (meaning that he was destined for manual labor), and he was uninterested in what he considered an irrelevant curriculum. Taylor organized a group called the "Modern Strivers." With the help of George Rhodes, Washington's assistant superintendent for secondary schools, the Strivers worked out a written proposal for their own freedom school.* They raised funds, got the loan of two floors in a church-owned building and a promise of volunteer bus service from Washington's Urban League...
...scholars sometimes seem bafflingly mercurial as to just who had a brush in which painting, there is good reason. Every important master in those times-including Jordaens-kept an atelier that employed dozens of apprentices to help execute the large decorative panels that were the order of the day. Even major painters often helped each other on big commissions. Van Dyck and Jordaens worked side by side on the Rubens ceiling pieces for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The Jordaens show itself is also a major achievement in assemblage. Paintings were loaned by Queen Elizabeth, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy...
Asking the culprit is not much help. One standard reply is that he is working on an article about shoplifting, and wanted to pull only one job so as to write with authority. In years past, apprehended shoplifters would often break into tears and beg for leniency. Not today. According to the security manager of a State Street store in Chicago: "Their attitude now is one of hostility and belligerence. Their outlook is 'I don't care. I've been there before.' And there's more violence-just the other day one of my people...
...Many experts argue that a reshuffling of parities should precede efforts to introduce more flexible exchange rates. Under today's International Monetary Fund rules, member nations must prevent their currencies from going more than 1% above or below official parity. Allowing fluctuations of 4% or 5% would theoretically help to eliminate recurrent monetary crises. But such a reform would take quite a bit of time to negotiate, and the talks themselves might heighten speculation...