Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Policy Studies in Higher Education. "Teachers are only just beginning to realize that there is a tremendous pool of buying power among students for electives." Of course there is nothing new in students evaluating their professors. Harvard and Yale undergraduates have for years published devastatingly candid brochures designed to help freshmen choose courses. But the temptation to ingratiate themselves with students by offering "guts"?courses with a reputation for easy grades?or resorting to informal rap sessions becomes difficult to resist when the alternative is empty classrooms...
...lanky, sandy-haired kid in baggy pants and suspenders wanders around the set. Spotting a stack of bologna sandwiches, he grabs one, tries to feed it to a nearby coleus and expresses his fond hope that the food will help the plant "grow up strong and have hairy pistils like its father." Next he picks up a small statue and, holding it like a microphone, intones, "Allo, allo, zis eez Jacques Cousteau for Union Oil." He then breaks into the Beverly Hills Blues: "Woke up the other day/ Ran out of Perrier/ I've really paid my dues...
...Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia's head of state, chatted away, Castro slumped in his chair and watched a parade. Back in the days of Emperor Haile Selassie such behavior would not have passed muster. But as it happened, Castro was in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to help the country's Marxist rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor. Despite his fatigue, he managed to review the military display in the parade-and smile broadly as soldiers chanted "Viva Castro...
...know there's class when you're in a department store and a well-dressed lady gets treated better.' 'Most people look down on the poor like me because you have to live so shabby and can't help yourself.' 'I'm a carpenter and I won't fit with doctors and lawyers or in country club society. We have different interests and want to do different things.' 'I would suppose social class means where you went to school...
...appetit, consumers. Help is on the way. That inescapable roadside institution, McDonald's, has been fined $5,000 for mislabeling frozen orange juice as freshly squeezed, and calling a concoction "maple syrup" that had nowhere enough maple to stand up to the name. In addition to folks at the Golden Arches, Baskin-Robbins, the International House of Pancakes and Hamburger Hamlets have all been foiled by a Los Angeles campaign to enforce honesty in eateries: it is now against the law, for example, to describe a nondairy product as "cream," or lower-grade beef as "prime." Like truth inadvertising...