Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Education Act is administered. Yet some members of these organizations feel that the current climate of opinion may make it harder for them to win future legal battles. Says Howard Squadron, chairman of the A.J.C.'s Commission on Law and Social Action: "It's difficult to find oneself in opposition to the spirit of progress...
...Allow me to congratulate you on the excellence of your Shastri cover story [Aug. 13]. You have done a valuable service by writing such an enlightening report on India. I may not agree with everything you have said, but I admit that reading your report is like looking at oneself in a mirror. I particularly appreciate the comment, "Indians have no will to work," and I am sure that every thinking person will take your comments in the right spirit...
...depth of achievement, paints a colorful articulation, a true and honest portrait of the American Jew. It is positive, yet critical. As a matter of fact, you too have captured the Jewish quality that you so aptly summarized in the last paragraph: ". . . it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself...
...expense. But many women might prefer to do without other luxuries in exchange for the boon of competent help. The key word is competent; too many servants, even when they are available, are unwilling and untrained, and it may take more time supervising them than doing the work oneself. Often, however, this is the fault of the employer. American women are not good at handling servants, being either too bossy or too familiar, and failing to set down reasonable but precise demands...
...bones and living all out in the present; it is Job's chutzpah as well as his submission to God; it is the lingering melancholy which the 12th century writer Judah Halevi called the "aching heart of nations," and it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself. For all his changes, the American Jew has not lost these qualities; in fact he is making them, more than ever, a gift to the world...