Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston's Children's Hospital has received a grant of $2,091,000 from the National Institute of Health to help build a new 17-story research building. Children's is the teaching pediatric hospital affiliated with the Harvard Medical School...
...Worked as missionaries specializing in the opium trade" and became famous as the "junk priests." He obtained the manuscript by parachuting into China with the help of a "Francis Gary Powers Traveling Fellowship...
William Randolph Hirsch is really three staffers on Monocle, a New York humor magazine-Marvin Kitman, Victor Navasky and Richard Lingeman. Their book combines a spoof of self-help manuals on how to be thin, agile and potent with a parody of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which after all is also a self-help book. In the Hirsch version of Chinese ideology, eating is as much a bourgeois deviation as making love. The book advances the remarkable theory that "under Communism, sex is work. Under capitalism, work...
Colicos' accomplishment is especially welcome, for it illustrates what can be done by long and dedicated hard work without any pronounced help from lady luck. In the early seasons of the Festival, Colicos was just one of the many actors doing yeoman service in small parts. From Lodovico in Othello, Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice, and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Colicos was advanced to the important supporting roles of Laertes in Hamlet and Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream. Then, in the final offering of the 1958 season, he was entrusted with the central role...
...they argue that rent supplements are too costly, but that Percy's plan--their own Republican proposal--is not. Regardless of the merits of the Percy proposal, the use of it as a substitute for rent supplements is outrageous. Supplements aid the very poor, while the Percy bill would help only those people who could show enough income stability to maintain payments on their homes...