Word: fulcrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seesaw in balance all by himself. Last week, as the Arab world reacted to his Red-pleasing execution of a score of nationalist Iraqi officers and civilians (TIME, Sept. 28), it became clear that Kassem had stepped just a little too far to the Communist side of the fulcrum...
...Lomans live and move, it is as human beings that they interest and concern us. Director Langton seems to have gotten to the root of the personal relationships of the play. One can almost see it schematized in his mind: Linda--Mrs. Loman--at the center as the fulcrum and focus of the action, and perhaps in the larger sense the symbol of Woman as the base of stability in the family, her husband Willy at one end of the lever, and Biff, her oldest son, at the other end. She is the agent whereby the audience gains emotional entrance...
...LeClerc, who plays the baker's young wife. She is a representative of the pre-Bardot tradition, but goes entirely too far in the other direction; she looks like a nun who had been only mildly unattractive until she met with a nasty accident. Since her beauty is the fulcrum of the plot, it sags heavily whenever she is around; happily enough, she spend most of the time off-screen in the arms of her lover...
...budgetmakers have worked hard for three years to cut unnecessary expenses, introduce modern management methods and get more return for every dollar spent (see below). But Ike was the first to point out that the all-important final weights in the balance came on the revenue side of the fulcrum; the tax yield from the prosperous second half of calendar 1956 will be unexpectedly good, and the Administration believes that 1957 will bring an even higher level of income...
...members to any political standard they choose. The reasons for this lie in the non-Marxian sociology of the American workingman. Its implications point a warning to the leaders of the new labor federation. While Meany and Reuther may visualize the AFL-CIO as a vast new political fulcrum which can make politicians tremble and cause labor policies to be transformed into political action, the task ahead may be much more difficult than either of them realizes. And, in making the attempt to influence political currents, the AFL-CIO chiefs may be risking more than they contemplate...