Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Institute, which is headed by General Maxwell Taylor, now employs 575 full-time civilian analysts in a high-arched, eleven-story building (dubbed "the paper-clip building") in Washington plus 50 communications experts housed in a Princeton campus building leased by IDA. Government agencies request IDA for specific research help; this year the Institute is handling 100 projects costing...
...Shea let it be known that the subject of the sermon was pain. But instead of delivering a homily, he challenged his congregation of 27 students to explain what pain meant to them. "There's a lot to be gained in suffering, and a nurse can help a patient learn that," said one girl. "But does the God you believe in have a vested interest in pain, to make people grow by insights through pain?" challenged the priest. "We make most of the pain ourselves," another girl volunteered. The dialogue continued for 15 minutes...
...sanitary regulations. Also high on GATT's agenda are measures to encourage trade between developed and underdeveloped nations by means of special concessions. Long foresees a period ahead in which the problems of poorer countries will be "of paramount importance," and his main job will be to help stop the widening prosperity...
...world given all its meaning and dimension by some vulgar nightclub clown. By some-some black humorist! Because that's who the black humorists are-of course!-the Henny Young-mans breaking them up down there in the Fontainebleau, and with what? Stories of murder and mutilation! 'Help, help,' cries the woman running along the sand at Miami Beach, 'my son the doctor is drowning!' Ha ha ha- only it is my son the patient, lady." His family still haunts him. "Good Christ," he cries "a Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year...
Portnoy recalls her with emotions that are swollen with love and loathing. He remembers her seductive tones during his toilet training and ponders the absurdity that such a memory could help mold his character. He relates the telephone conversation he had with her after returning from his European vacation: "Well, how's my lover?" she asked, as his father listened on an extension. "And it never occurs to her," says Portnoy, "if I'm her lover, who is he, the shmegeggy she lives with...