Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies were among sixteen prominent citizens named to help formulate Democratic party policy...
What they got was Operation Exodus, a group of parents who, without pay, and without much professional help, are busing more than 800 children out of predominantly Negro areas such as Roxbury into schools elsewhere in the city. Exodus' success in the Negro community has been startling. Its enrollment this year is almost double that of last, and there is a waiting list. The parents have done more than supervising the busing; from their storefront office on Roxbury's Blue Hill Avenue, they have started tutorial and recreational programs...
...addition to sheer curiosity there are good policy reasons for encouraging a "strategic" analysis of the criminal underworld, an analysis that might draw on modern economics and business administration. Such an analysis, in contrast to "tactical" intelligence aimed at the apprehension of individual criminals, could help in identifying the incentives and the limitations that apply to organized crime, in evaluating the costs and losses and in restructuring laws and programs to minimize the costs, wastes and injustices that crime entails...
...death as a souvenir even if it is only the grateful knowledge that they avoided it. A draftee may-never see blood or battle. But the two years of his life that are organized around the skills of killing and disabling, the highest arts of military science, cannot help but change...
...very sharp-witted, very profound, a long-time student of Zen in Kyoto, and a poet who despite militant political leftism gives the impression of being the best-adjusted man on earth. Yet I don't think he's much of a poet, and I can't help feeling he's perhaps too much of a man, in the sense that Yeats was suggesting (as Barber quotes him here) when he said that man "is forced to choose/ Perfection of the life, or of the work...