Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from the mayor, then grabs for the mayor's job. But old Mayor Quinn is as wily as he is corrupt. Quinn breaks Stanton's wife's heart and kills Matt's political chances...
Harvard volunteers are received graciously by the tribe, but the Havasupai are reluctant to confide their fears about what is happening to their dwindling poulation, to their tenuous economy, and to the precious Canyon that is threatened by a dam upstream...
...teenagers especially the summer in Supai only reaffirms their determination to leave the settlement. Parents and tribal leaders, frightened by the threatened exodus of Havasupai's young blood, welcome the PBH volunteers to Supai because they are often able to convince the children and teenagers that there is something precious about their Canyon. Harvard students often claim that their job for the summer was "building egos" -- showing 10-year-olds who want to be the cowboy in "cowboys and Indians" that being Indian is special and desirable...
...program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form new helicopter units. Most serious of all-considering McNamara's reputation as an administrator and planner-is the giant logistics bottleneck in Viet Nam that is backing up ships and their precious military cargoes as far as Japan and slowing the U.S. war effort (TIME, Dec. 24). If McNamara knows anything, say his critics, he should know about logistics...
...dean of Brooklyn's topnotch Pratt Institute Art School, Christ-Janer has precious little time to be in contact with his prime sources. He picks up many of his impressions while flying around the lecture circuit or to Europe, works them out only on weekends. A scholar as well, he has taught in seven colleges since graduating with an M.A. from Yale, written four books, including biographies of the artists George Caleb Bingham, Boardman Robinson and Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen, under whom he worked at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy...