Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal funds are expected soon for the Radcliffe Institute's program. The Institute was established by the trustees of Radcliffe College in 1960 to help talented women who want to do professional work without disrupting their family life...
Most people who seek help from the Draft Resistance Group are not interested in trying to prove they are conscientious objectors to war. The few who want to try for C.O. are referred to the Americans Friends Service Committee in Harvard Square, which has a staff more experienced in the intricacies of the C.O. procedures...
Mungo says that most men who seek help from the resistors are working class people, and he believes this is very significant. "It's nothing new for intellectuals to protest wars," he said, but he called the evidence of dissent among "plain ordinary guys" an "unprecedented movement." Yet, he admitted that this "movement" is still infinitessimally small. His office has aided a few more than one hundred people...
...like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia in the Festival's 1957 production...
According to Epstein, Manchester described Johnson in the book as "a crafty schemer," and "an oyster who patiently converts bits of grit into salable pearls." He also says that Manchester pictured Johnson, after three years as Vice-President, as "virtually impotent," and that expecting Johnson to help with Congress was, in Manchester's words, "like expecting an erection from a paramecium. It couldn't work. The creature had no member...