Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dial on one typical evening last week, an Italian viewer could tune into the following shows: instruction in sexual positions by a scantily clad young couple; lessons in chess, French or English; a battery of commentators ruminating about the kidnaping of ex-Premier Aldo Moro; an education program to help children with their homework; a spaghetti western; a porno feature called The Masseuses; and a phone-in quiz starring a housewife-masked to protect her identity-who peeled off an item of clothing every time a caller got the answer right. For the truly hard-to-please, there were also...
...Heart, in its controlled structure and in the daring with which both writers force collisions of conscience and will. But perhaps the most heartening aspect of the new book is one that is almost incidental to it, the passages about Isabel and the two women friends who help her. The moments of warmth and the strains that gradually heal are written with openness and unselfconsciousness. It is as if the painfully aggressive voices of the past decade had finally been heard, understood and absorbed...
...that she is making-$300,000 from the paperback sale, for example. "I deserve something, but not all that," she muses. She will take a trip to Spain, teach a course on the religious novel at Amherst next year, finish a new book and "look into causes that need help" if that money piles up too high. First, like Isabel after her liberation, she will buy some clothes at Bloomingdale...
...March 20, three uniformed University policemen stood on the steps of 17 Quincy Street, headquarters of the Harvard Corporation, while about 400 students marched around the building chanting and carrying signs urging Harvard to help end the investment of U.S. corporations in South Africa. After calmly watching the students cut across his field of vision for the 20th time, one of the policemen turned to his fellow officers and began the follow officers and began the following conversation...
...size of Harvard's holdings grew, and as the University turned towards the more unpredictable forms of investment, like common stocks--instead of bonds, government securities and real estate--a full-time treasurer was necessary. In the '50s and '60s treasurers used their own private investment firms to help manage the portfolio, but when George F. Bennett '33 resigned as treasurer in 1973, citing an impossible workload as the cause, Harvard decided to change the system. Bennett had in effect two full-time jobs, one at Harvard and one as president of his own firm, so Harvard decided its next...