Word: easier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTUNE was started by Luce in 1930, at the beginning of the Depression. In its early years, it was a hotbed of contentious comment. "We made the discovery," said Luce, "that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers." One of the major contributors to FORTUNE was a poet, Archibald MacLeish. "My essential education as an American began on FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed...
...Mitchell, who is the first black candidate the Communist party has ever nominated, has been with the party since 1946. When she was nine, her family moved from Cincinnati to Chicago, where it was easier for her father, a railroad yards worker, to find employment. "We lived in the Near North Side," she recalled. "At the time of the Second World War, it was the heart of the profascist, racist, anti-labor movement in Chicago. My parents were working people. We were anti-fascist and pro-civil rights. We walked in picket lines. The Communist Party was on our side...
...declaring "Minis for Decadent Europe." In retaliation, coeds donned their shortest minis and routed the green guards with a chant of "Get lost." Girls at a youth hostel unanimously voted that "men should not decide what women will wear." One secretary defended her mini, explaining that it made it easier for her to move around the office and push through a crowded bus. A women's leader, who is also a Member of Parliament, backed up the miniskirted girls, assuring them that "you can go naked-we won't object...
...obvious advantage of this method is that it makes easier the instruction of fundamentals-scale fingering, rhythm, sight reading. It also enables the students to spend most of their class time actually playing. The benefit for the teacher lies primarily in the fact that he is spared having to repeat lesson plans and general principles over and over to each student...
...Nixon is elected, particularly with a strong Wallace vote pulling him to the right, it is not we in the universities who are going to suffer--it is the poor, both in the cities and the countryside whose well-being will be jeopardized by what happens. There is nothing easier than being true to one's convictions when only the helpless will be hurt by them. Nicholas R. Clifford...