Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The attempt demonstrated the extraordinary efficiency of a pioneering early-warning system that is called the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena. Based at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., the center uses volunteer observers and the Smithsonian's satellite-tracking communications network to inform the world's...
Virtuoso Stock. Martin's patient is Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson), who lives in morbid fear of turning into a bed sitting room. He eventually does, of course. Just the way Penelope's Mum (Mona Washbourne) turns into a dresser and her Dad (Arthur Lowe) into a parrot, while...
When I entered the basement of Memorial Church at 8:30 yesterday morning to volunteer my services in canvassing Cambridge to drum up support for the Moratorium, I had all the good intentions of a young rabbi.
The evaluations dropped off by some of the other canvassers repeated my experiences. "Leafleting should be done between 7 and 10 p.m. when people are home," commented one volunteer. Another student who canvassed at storefronts said, "I question the general effectiveness of distributing pamphlets." He suggested that the volunteers "distribute...
The people we label mentally ill are people who have a more difficult time than we communicating and trusting. To try to reach them one must be painfully honest and without pretense, obviously impossible in this volunteer's situation.