Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national educational quality would be immeasurably better served by taking the money now spent on private preparatory schools as well as whatever amounts Dean Sizer hopes the federal government will spend in aid to these obviously impoverished institutions and give them instead to the schools truly in need of help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia...
...initiated change. Yet it has become clear that a shake-up at the Law School--ranging from a re-evaluation of extracurricular activities to a tightening of procedures in the Placement Office--is certainly possible. A sizeable number of professor heartily sympathize with student complaints and are anxious to help the committee force action, instead of burying the issues in painful deliberation...
Meredith cited reneging by the Harlem GOP on promises of money and campaign help as the reason for his withdrawal. Yet he went on to say that Republican leaders had not pressured him to quit the race. "I don't think there was any bad faith," he said. "I think political expediency was the order...
This view of the Peace Corps Volunteer as somewhere between amateur and expert, tourist and scholar can help put in perspective what Volunteers have written and will write about their work in developing societies. Alongside startling naivetes we are likely to find startling insights. The Volunteer does not have an economist's understanding of macro-economic growth, but he knows many things about development that the expert has never seen. And while he lacks the anthropologist's scholarship in his approach to foreign culture, the Volunteer brings to it a unique kind of involvement...
...achieve a breakthrough which permits them to accept and draw pleasure from their environment on its own terms. This capacity may be more a matter of temperament than anything else. The Brooks left Educador with an adopted son and daughter, a testimony to their identification with the people they helped. Other Volunteers are thrown back upon themselves; they ransack the Peace Corps booklocker and strugble to define the attitudes their new new existence has forced onto them. Ken Kressel who served in the Ivory Coast called for a Peace Corps philosophy of dullness appropriate to the environment. "No crashing...