Word: worth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...join the Harvard coterie until 1954. He was born with a flat twang accent in 1928 in Fort Worth and worked through an M. A. at U. C. L. A. on a Native Son of the Golden West fellowship. With a new doctorate he spent the Korean War as an historian for the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954 he came to Harvard as an instructor and has wandered up the academic hierarchy to full professor...
...Viet Nam demanded and received kickbacks from entertainers. She reported paying about $10,000 in two years to get jobs for clients, and was still frozen out of one club after she rebuffed the custodian's amorous advances. She heard one sergeant boast that "being a custodian is worth...
...would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment...
...learned a lot during the 1960s. So, apparently, did television. NBC's documentary, From Here to the Seventies, last week looked back at ten years worth of space and sports, of fads and fashions, of transportation and transplantation, of involvement and integration, of race and riot, and of politics, pot, poverty, pollution and the Pill. This super documentary was intriguing both in what it said and how it was said. For a presumed organ of the Establishment, NBC came out surprisingly and strongly pro-pot and antiwar, while parenthetically acknowledging that the new generation might teach old politicians...
Also passed over is the background of a fascist living in the village after deserting from the Italian army. In the book he deserts because he cannot see forcing his men to kill and be killed for a cause not worth fighting for. In the movie, he just appears, no explanation given...