Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book's greatest value may be as a kind of working handbook of community development: the Brooks were inventive, and many of the techniques they experimented with can stand other Volunteers in good stead. They used a variety of ways to scare up money for new projects: tapping local businessmen and expatriates for donations of cash and equipment, digging into their own pockets, and soliciting money and materials from friends in the States. I have long felt the Peace Corps needs to revise its dogma on equipping Volunteers with money and supplies. The official line holds that the Volunteer should...
...When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming. And shouldn't revolutionaries act just like the exploiting class they would, allegedly, overthrow? Let us not act in the interest of the collective! Selfish opportunism is what capitalism trains people to expect. Don't scare the j"spoon fed" masses with some newfangled morality...
From its inception, N.S.A. had financial problems; membership dues were minimal (they still add no more than $18,000 to an annual budget of some $800,000). Private foundations were not enthusiastic about contributing, partly because in those Red-scare days N.S.A. was thought to be too leftwing; the House Un-American Activities Committee even planted two agents among student association delegates to the 1962 Helsinki World Youth Festival. Nevertheless, N.S.A. managed to limp along; its representatives continued to attend a series of international student rallies. Invariably, they found themselves outmaneuvered, outshouted and outfinanced by Communist student organizations that went...
...like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed to conceal social brutalities in a region that deserved better leadership, and he didn't scare...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead sets out to scare Stefanie (U.N.C.L.E.'s girl) Powers to death in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) based on the bestseller Nightmare and directed by Silvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl...