Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replaced traditional activities in recreation and education with new programs focusing on the economic needs of local residents. The search for the "right" program has been mirrored in the search for a name. Five years ago the House became the South End Youth Training and Employment Center. With the help of federal money, it ran a morning school and afternoon job training program for over one thousand high school dropouts. Three years ago, the House lost most of its trainees and all of its federal funds to Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), which became Boston's official poverty program...
...jokes in Falstaff are foolproof because Verdi built the comic timing into the music. If the singers stick to the notes, they can't help but deliver the punchline faultlessly every time. Add to this the fact that any joke, no matter how hackneyed, quadruples in laugh-value the moment it is set to music, and you see why the opera Falstaff is as much funner than the play The Merry Wives of Windsor as Gilbert and Sullivan is funnier than Gilbert...
...could not help but noitice an element of vulgarity in Adams's treatment of the music. Both the Haydn and the Mozart lacked the classical elegance that is so important in works of that period. In the Milhaud Adams adopted a grinding, spread-kneed approach and a style of rhythmic emphasis that owed more to Motown than nineteen-twenties jazz...
Much of his work has been conducted overseas with help from foreign collaborators. "I've ever used Air Force money to pay their salaries, just money from the State Departmne'ts exchange program," he said...
...placing authority over the Community Action Programs in the hands of local governments, the House has run the risk that this part of the anti-poverty war will simply become a vehicle for handing out patronage. The ability of poor people to participate in the very programs designed to help them, which has been one of the most creative, innovations of the Community Action Programs, is also jeopardized by this provision...