Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prepared lunch for my active four-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, who was having her usual mealtime tantrum, I could not help thinking of those Catholic priests who were meeting to pursue a new church ruling regarding celibate or married life. If they could share some of our hectic meal ordeals, they would surely want to remain celibate...
...lack of success, and the astounding performance of the 1967 Red Sox, is as hackneyed as it is true. The old Sox were cursed by a losing mentality. So what if you finish eighth or ninth, whether you win this game or lose it? It's not going to help anybody's paycheck. The players had one overriding interest: themselves. Such self-interest obviously hurt the team, and it puts incredible pressure on the individual players. They are fighting a battle alone...
...would be critical. His error had slowed the psychic momentum of Saturday's charge. One felt anything less than a hit would reverse the dizzying hope he had aroused in team and crowd, reverse the superhuman confidence he had in himself. Lonborg could not defeat the Twins without his help. There is no point in needless suspense. In the fourth inning Yasthrzemski sliced a line drive off the left field wall and slid into second, into the very heart of the diamond. The Red Sox were still moving in the force field of fortune and victory which they had entered...
...extend themselves rather than their wish for security. They hope that a law degree will open the possibility of an activist career at home or abroad. This is one of the reasons why they come to law schools rather than schools of public administration, which they see as helping one move into the bureaucracy rather than out of it. Some students of this outlook are impelled into psychiatry or clinical psychology, or some other form of helping individuals. But it is my impression that the greater concern now is to work with and to help groups, even if the groups...
...legal practice or political life. Believing that feelings count more than facts, intuition more than ideas, some of these students move into a neighborhood law office or legal defender's office--frequently to discover what Peace Corps Volunteers and VISTA workers also have found, namely, that to help people is not the easiest thing in the world, but one of the most difficult, and that poor people of whatever race are especially suspicious and are often dishonest. Some of these students whose commitment to justice and to social change is not immoderate may conclude that the problems of the rich...