Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police court sent him home with the shudders. His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities." Eventually the young man collected himself, wrote a campaign biography of Lincoln, and was given the consulship at Venice as a reward. When he returned, he became editor of the Atlantic and settled in Boston, where no one forced him to observe police-court reality and the most severe shock to his sensibilities was Mark Twain's swearing...
...most movng writing in Heart break House is found in the occasional philosophical musings Shaw inects into the conversation--for example, the exchanges between the Captain and Ellie in Act II ("You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life; and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live...
...teach her lesson, Mrs. Kellogg cam paigns ceaselessly against coloring books, against "art lessons" before the age of ten, against art teachers who reward copying and discourage imagination, and against the parent's temptation to cry out: "It's a man!" "All children are natural artists," Mrs. Kellogg says, "so why not let them be? Their art has a natural esthetic qual ity. All of it is beautiful, and none of it is ugly...
...another article, Ellen Kramer summarizes Will Herberg's Judaeo-existential thought well enough so that one has no need to go to the original, but she hardly contributes enough of her own views to reward plowing through her careful resume...
...farms, although the collectives enjoy better conditions," such as cheap government loans, tax rebates, priority on machinery and fertilizer. The lesson-that free farming works while collectivized agriculture does not-obviously interests Moscow. Khrushchev, while still insisting on collectives, has raised financial incentive for increased output. Eying the Polish reward system, Moscow not long ago confessed: "We share your joy in the achievements of your agriculture. Your policy is producing good results...