Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voodoo may be lunacy, the religion may be primitive, and the market place unsanitary. But one can not help wondering if the Haitian people aren't able to relate to each other in a way that most Americans have forgotten...
...there is to be progress in Haiti, it will have to come through private initiative; for the Haitian government has no interest in change, and Washington, although genuinely eager to help, has been unable to deal with the methods of development...
...Faculty grant will help take care of future Harvard students who might have received National Merit Scholarships under the previous plan, he said...
...national possessions-utterances-as rare as they are precious, that will live forever in the amber of history." If F.D.R. ever squirmed, he never showed it. His small contribution to this massive collection is made up mostly of delighted thanks for Frankfurter's fawning and requests for his help: "Tell me what to write-dictate right now the note that you think I ought to send [Stimson...
...Sinister Madonna (the Hunter girls?), classic marble zombie who ruled with an iron broomstick. No, Desire tells of human witches and the witchcraft of love. Strange fires burn here, and one could look a long time without understanding. Apparently Anastasia is destroying herself. Others come to pillage, sometimes to help, and lo! discover that they have been deceived. No warm sweets from the blaze. In this parable of bad love she takes the best of them as fuel for the upward rush of her mystery, her growth and strength...