Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernbeck, a Hamburg orthopedist, who viewed with alarm the 17-year-old cockney dowsing rod, opined that "practically everything is wrong with her-she has a humpback, exaggerated curvature of the spine and a hanging abdomen," all leading inevitably to "pains in the loins and the hips." Nothing would help old Twig, he added, except maybe swimming or "crawling around on all fours for ten minutes each morning and evening." Whereupon Mrs. Nell Hornby, Twiggy's mother, spoke up: "What a load of rubbish. You'll not find any girl as healthy as my daughter...
They may not do the actual talking, but they advise and prompt and often write the script. They are employed by the President and his Cabinet, corporation executives and union bosses, university heads and foundation directors. They help banks seem less coldly businesslike, charity organizations seem more businesslike, churches garner more souls. By no means do only the big chiefs use p.r. men: hardly anything is done without them these days, whether one is starting a barbershop, publishing a book, launching a girl in society, arranging a wedding or organizing a funeral...
...modern public relations grew out of business' need to talk to the press and through it to the public. The first modern public relations man was the legendary Ivy Lee, a financial reporter on the New York Journal, who decided that U.S. capitalism should have help against the muckrakers, who were attacking the callous business practices prevailing around the turn of the century. He taught the railroads not to try to suppress news of accidents, as they had always done, but to win over the press by supplying full and frank detail. By ghostwriting speeches and commissioning biographies...
...Father Kavanaugh's readers will doubt that his concern for their human tragedies is both passionate and sincere. Nonetheless, many Catholics who hope and pray for renewal may have cause to suspect that Kavanaugh's angry and oversimplified criticism can only hurt rather than help the forces of change within the church...
...that Cuban censorship is relatively tolerant of "self-criticism," particularly in fiction. Besides, the underlying tone is not really anti-Castro; it is apolitical. Malabre is a typical declasse, a man who loathes his fellow bourgeois but cannot fit himself into the proletariat. The revolution goes on without his help or hindrance, though he makes frequent but feeble efforts to write stories in the accepted style of "socialist realism." He seems to prove that though political systems come and go, the alienated man-or worm-never changes...