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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME has perpetuated one of America's greatest fallacies in its Essay "Of Truth and Money" by referring to money as "one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...score of organizations-not least of which is the Federal Government's Office of Economic Opportunity-have encouraged the poor to drop whatever inhibitions they had about welfare. Sharp-eyed lawyers and organizers are discovering hidden benefits that scarcely anyone knew existed. Welfare officials, in turn, are being pressured to grant new benefits, such as money for telephones and Christmas gifts, so that life on welfare can more closely approximate life in the rest of America. Yet the welfare militants have more in mind than just getting a little more. By stretching the current system to its farthest limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WELFARE AND ILLFARE: THE ALTERNATIVES TO POVERTY | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...book's comic tone is bland rather than pithy, a little disappointing coming from Neil Simon. The rhythms of the Burt Bacharach score sound like sporadic rifle fire, and aside from one melodic lament, I'II Never Fall in Love Again, the songs are interchangeably tuneless. In the first-act finale, a Christmas office-party number produces a vigorous choreographic commotion, except that it obviously attempts to duplicate the volcanic Brotherhood of Man sequence in How to Succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Mediocrity into Success | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Finian's Rainbow -- A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...goal at 5:56 with B.U. shorthanded two men. He picked up the puck at the Harvard end and skated around two B.U. defensemen to dribble the puck in past McCann. A Terrier goal at 7:42 on a centering pass from Bruce Hatton to Wayne Gowing tied the score...

Author: By Stephen F. Kelley, | Title: Varsity Stickmen Thrash Rugged B.U., 7-4 | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

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