Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During the first ten days, the rain poured down and their ankles grew swollen. In order to forget the pain, they chanted: "A thousand mountains, 10,000 rivers are nothing," an old Long Marching song. Despite fatigue they found time in four major cities and 17 counties "to help people with their household work and production, in line with Chairman Mao's teachings and the fine working style of the People's Liberation Army...
...those elementary conversation books for learning a foreign language. Then the play opens out into a kind of choreographic ritual of modern life, urban herds shuffling to and fro, the commuter's lock step, a cocktail party. It is apparent that interviewers and applicants alike need help: instead of the bread of life, they are fed vacuous cliches by intellectual bubble-gum blowhards representing the church, state, politics and psychoanalysis. One of the self-frocked priests of the Freudian age opens his mouth to say: "Blah, blah, blah, blah-hostile. Blah, blah, blah, blah-penis. Blah, blah, blah, blah...
...interview with the Harvard Crimson, McNamara also said that a lottery system could help ease the "uncertainty and inequity" of the military draft...
...goes some frustration, expressed in a fad for cynical or enigmatic slogans painted on the fences of every campus' inevitable construction sites. The old fire to hit the streets on behalf of civil rights has largely faded. A new desire to work pragmatically to tutor Negro kids and help out in slums is rising...
...computers went awry, so did some of the newscasters assigned to analyze their output. NBC's Robert MacNeil, anxious to help fill in the empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley...