Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN THE Medical School's Community Health Plan opens its first clinics in August, one of its branches will be in Roxbury's Mission Hill discussion. Mission Hill is only a few blocks away from the imposing buildings of the Med School, but mere proximity is obviously not the reason for the plan's outpost in Mission Hill...
...that kind of simplistic rationalization never comes up. The reason for the plan's economically-mixed clientele is far more subtle. All plans aimed entirely at the poor have a basic weakness: since all their money comes from the government, any cut off in the government fiscal supply will instantly kill the plan. Pollack adds that poor-only programs may become over-specialized. If they only treat sick poor people, they may lose touch with the real world of American medicine; their techniques will be fine for the ghetto, but they won't apply to the majority of the country...
Part of the reason for the health plan's national ambitions may come from the backgrounds of the men who direct it. Before he came to Harvard, Pollack had served as professor of administrative medicine at Columbia and director of Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Hospital Costs in New York. In his years in New York, Pollack used to buy medi- cal service plans for three million people. By the time he came to Harvard in 1965, Pollack says he "came with a national outlook...
...rock and roll writer always finds himself addressing not a neutral but a highly partisan, opinionated audience. In fact, the main reason the members of this audience even deign to read about rock and roll at all is to have their own strongly held opinions confirmed about all the records and groups in the rock universe. So the rock writer is always under a heavy obligation to explain exactly why he himself likes or dislikes a particular album or group. And the only way he can do so is to invent a theoretical framework within whose terms all of rock...
...Harvard group's statement explained the reason for their drive: "the initial shock last July of learning that six million persons would die of starvation over the coming year, many of us were troubled by a sense of being able to do nothing to alleviate the situation. So we did nothing...