Word: helpful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long, unfortunately, the South has been characterized in the national news media by people like the Wallaces and other such mongers of hate and prejudice. While, in a democracy, they are entitled to be heard, they have received far more coverage than they deserve. Your article will help to redress this imbalance, I hope, by having presented an excellent portrait of another kind of Southerner and a truly great American...
...More Help than Hurt. Politically, Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...
...mutual admiration, their staffs are in frequent consultation. The Governor and the Senator have found it easy to cooperate on public-works programs to benefit the state, and have even agreed on a controversial plan to preserve California's redwood forests (TIME, March 24). Reagan's help on such nonideological issues can only buttress the look-what-I've-done-for-California theme that Kuchel will probably use in his re-election campaign. And Kuchel allowed solemnly last week: "I think a U.S. Senator has a duty to cooperate with the Governor of his state in order...
...promote the U.S. image abroad, is frequently in conflict with State's Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau, which is supposed to promote longer-range cultural and educational exchanges. It has been suggested that the new body should take over such existing cultural functions; more probably, it should only help rationalize them...
...this unpromising record, the authors of the New Republic article answer that "the intrinsic drama and importance of a challenge on the presidential level could help boost local organizing. Contacts can be made and relationships formed which would encourage a much greater sense of unity than the fragmentation and frustration that now characterize the left." In truth it is precisely "the intrinsic drama and importance of a challenge on the presidential level" which can best foster "the fragmentation and frustration that now characterize the left." The Wallace campaign, though forged in the same spirit of ostensible unity that pervades...