Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Lowell, too, is an explainer-and a celebrator-of mystery. A poet's work is best and finally explained in his own verse, but to help capture Lowell's world, TIME'S Boston bureau chief, Chris Cory, interviewed him, spoke to his friends and visited the Maine village where Lowell spends his summers. "He is a nice fellow," said one elderly man there, "but I don't understand anything about his poetry except that he is unhappy...
...sorts bring out the best of TV-the imagination of its reporters, the skills of its engineers. Parabolic microphones pick up a quarterback's signal changes; they eavesdrop on conversations between a golfer and his caddy. Other gimmicks such as "instant replay," "stop action," and the split screen help to heighten drama and educate the fan in the intricacies of the game...
...faced Israel on the West, 40,000 Syrians to the north squinted into Israel, as Major General Hafez Assad put it, "with their fingers tight on their triggers." Jordan's 40,000-man Arab Legion moved into position in the west, and Iraq sent 5,000 troops to help out in Syria. Algeria promised an airlift of troops, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, ordering 20,000 of his men into Jordan, proclaimed that "any Arab who falters in this battle is not worthy of the name Arab." Arab preachers in countless mosques throughout the Middle East reminded...
University Printing Office officials denied yesterday that outside help was being brought in to print examinations or that the University was planning to close down the printing office itself. "We want the men to come back to work," Carl Getz, assistant director of the Printing Office, said last night...
...little monks," that an acceptable Republican is nominated? Or, if an unacceptable nominee emerges, and if Johnson has not changed his War policy, do we all get drunk on election day? The most iniquitous form of self-indulgence is a refusal to think seriously about political strategies that might help change an unacceptable "reality." Sanford V. Levinson Tutor, Department of Government