Word: vitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, in its eighth year at the Law School, over 100 law students have held court for several thousand low-income tax-payers at four Cambridge sites the last two months...
...think it's terrific," said Philip K. Thayer, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "I did most of [my returns] myself, but I went to VITA to make sure I didn't overlook anything, especially exemptions...
Others are less prepared, however, "A few folks will come in here and give us a pile of papers and their W-2 forms, and ask us to fill them out," said second-year law student Samuel C. Sichko, director of the Harvard VITA program...
Organized by the IRS in 1969, VITA provides free, confidential tax assistance to the poor. "Anyone above $15,000 to $18,000 can afford to hire someone to do it themselves," said Sichko. "The program's goal is specifically low-income individuals, and that is further defined as elderly, handicapped, and non-English speaking people," added IRS Public Information official Thomas Allen...
...years old, is similarly uninhibited in describing Poet Victoria Sackville-West's celebrated affair with Virginia Woolf. The former's appearance, he writes, was "strange almost beyond the reach of adjectives . . . she resembled Lady Chatterley and her lover rolled into one." According to the author, Vita Sackville-West's husband, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia's spouse, Leonard, "observed the affair from the point of view of cautious guardians, determined that [Virginia's] unaccustomed feelings must not disturb [her] mental balance." Woolf's novel Orlando, "the direct result of her emotional adventures," was an immediate...