Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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HARVARD MAKES a promise, casts a spell, and breaks them both. It promises liberal education and conjures an aura of power. The power is conferred upon you by the diploma, which fools the outside world into believing that you are well-educated. When you are inside, of course, you know better. You know you can avoid confronting either a professor or a course. You know that Harvard teaches most people not liberal arts but how to get what you want, or go under. The promise of humanism remains unfulfilled for all but a lucky few, who latch onto the people...
...American tradition that goes back to community barn raisings three centuries ago, philanthropy is now big business, but is it always a truthful business? Cheerful givers usually know precious little about a sector of the economy that in 1978 claimed a record $39.6 billion-an average of $180 for every man, woman and child in the nation -for donations to the Red Cross, United Way, CARE, the March of Dimes and some 800,000 lesser organizations raising money in the name of charity...
...taken over by the Government. Few taxpayers will agree that the U.S. needs another bureaucracy or more federal spending. For all the book's flaws, anyone who has the stamina and sharp eyesight to get through 459 pages closely set in tiny type will rightly demand to know more about what his favorite charity is doing with his hard-earned dollars before he writes another check...
...reacted to the situation by going for an intimidating hit." He adds in passing regret: "When the reality of Stingley's injury hit me with its full impact, I was shattered. To think that my tackle broke another man's neck and killed his future ... well, I know it hurts Darryl, but it hurts...
...engine factory. She is divorced, with a ne'er-do-well ex-husband who runs at the mention of child support for their twelve-year-old daughter. Like the women she works with, she does not look much beyond a good time Saturday night. But she does know one thing: she cannot make do on the $4.30 an hour she is now being paid...