Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting director of welfare for the City of Cambridge, who is responsible for 2,229 cases under Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Assistance, Disability Assistance and General Relief, told me last fall that the welfare department, despite the intimate relationship between case and case worker, should not involve itself in matters of family planning or birth control. He justified, under the aegis of "privacy," the prohibition on social workers' discussion of birth control with clients. He could not enlarge up his philosophy of privacy, a philosophy not often associated with the welfare department. He intimated that even...
...Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since other directors have long since surpassed Bufiuel when it comes to on-screen presentation of sex, most audiences will not find anything visually shocking about Belle de Jour...
...bright spots. Sensitive playing from violinist Richard Hamm and cellist Steven Gates sparked an otherwise lack-lustre orchestra. Sopranos Jane Devitt and Made-laine Rembock displayed powerful but well-controlled voices, while alto Gail Feinberg sang everything with a pubescent, lower-class tone that was instant comic relief. Tenor Larry Bakst, looking more embarrassed than most in his sparse neo-Athenian garb, nonetheless gave out a pure, well-modulated Russell Oberlin-like sound that was the surprise joy of the evening. The chorus acquitted itself energetically, though its acting and stage deportment matched the sophistication of dollar-a-day extras...
...units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans," growled Abrams, "and we can fight by ourselves." It was Abrams in his Sherman tank who led the relief column into Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. It was Abrams again who led the dash to the Rhine, moving so fast that he once surprised a German general and his staff with their boots up on their desks...
...coffee cups were whisked away. Mrs. Belle Spafford, President of the Relief Society of the Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints rose up on the dias to give the first speech--a history of the women's movement in the United States. She spoke with much intensity, very close to the microphone. 'The first women's group, an abolitionist group--they called themselves Females Against Slavery--met in Philadelphia during the 1830's. It was an outrage then that women should meet thus together for some political matter. Few attended the gatherings. Their first meeting," and here her voice...