Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important it is for teaching fellows to act to improve their own situation. It is really too late to do anything this year about one of the most exploited groups in the Harvard community. But if anyone is interested for next year in reviving what is not a lost, but a forgotten cause, I wish they would contact me. Much research has been done on the position of teaching fellows at Harvard. It would be tragic to see it go to waste. Mrs. Susan Jhirad Department of Romance Languages Former executive member of the Teaching Fellows Federation...
...first episode of Julia, a new TV series, the heroine has just lost her husband, a helicopter pilot, in Viet Nam. To raise her six-year-old son, Julia wants to resume her nursing career. She phones a physician and is immediately offered an interview. But she wavers. "Oh," she asks, "did they tell you I'm colored?" "Mm," he replies, "what color are you?" "Wh-hy, I'm Negro." "Oh," says the doctor. "Have you always been a Negro, or are you just trying to be fashionable...
Subscribers to the Saturday Evening Post are in for a surprise. The magazine lost $3.5 million last year, and there has been genuine concern that it might soon be forced to close down. Last week the Curtis Publishing Co.'s new president, Martin S. Ackerman, 36, acted to cut operating expenses sharply-and keep the Post alive. He will, he announced, shrink circulation from its present 6,800,000 to 3,000,000 or less, mostly by the simple act of canceling subscriptions. Readers dropped from the mailing list will be offered their choice of switching to other Curtis...
Paralleling Hemingway the artist as well as the public personality, he has become the leading spokesman for his own "lost generation" of the half-Westernized young. How lost is lost? Pretty desperately far out, as Mishima charts it. In Forbidden Colors, an ugly, aging novelist with a consuming hatred for women makes a devil's compact with a staggeringly handsome young homosexual named Yuichi. For a very cold cash settlement, this irresistible "Apollo molded in bronze" will exact the old man's revenge by systematically attracting and frustrating women-even to the extent of marriage...
...which at long last completed the program of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. "Everyone except the Neanderthals agreed on Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than the traditional American optimism that says, "However miserable the present may be, there is always hope for the future...