Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work is beautifully written, and is generally recognized as a masterpiece. As another Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann, wrote: "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian ... is unforgetable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst." The novel's appeal has continued over the years, and it speaks (as do other Hesse novels, particularly Steppenwolf and Siddhartha ) with especial force to today...
This book, laid in Ireland at the start of World War II, tells of a 17-year-old. Everylad who feels himself a failure and is at odds with his father and siblings. The work possesses authenticity and humor; the writing is literate and well above average. The weaker portions are overshadowed by the tremendous impact of the final pages, where the boy finds a meaning for his life as he works to help victims of a German bombing-raid...
...THERE they are: a supreme book, a good book, and a superior book. Yet the Rev. Hanson said of them that literary value "may be hard to find." Furthermore, another of the Supreme Court's criteria for obscenity requires that a work be "utterly without redeeming social value," whereas each of these three works-literary quality aside-is clearly a document of unusual social significance and value...
...University has contended first of all that setting the minimum number of minority workers at 20 per cent would be discriminatory since the proportion of non white workers in the metropolitan area work force falls far short of that figure. OBU disputes the Administration figure, but even if Afro were over-estimating the minority group percentage, their demand would still be legitimate. Tired reservations about "reverse discrimination" are insufficient excuse for not making every possible effort to assist minority group people in their effort to overcome the immense burdens which American society imposes upon them...
...sense of haste that was imposed on the Committee, and surely felt by the President, arising from a December 15 deadline for submission of the next annual renewal application for the Project. While there was understandable irritation at having to work against such a deadline, we could not ignore the fact that prolonged consideration would amount to a pocket veto. I understand that an extension of time has now been requested to allow for further consideration...