Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche's superman or the Superman of the comic books. It is a super-animal...
Joyce Redman plays at the level of the script, in tragedy-queen style with plenty of pedal; and whether right or not for Anne, is completely right for Anderson...
...what promises to be a great history of the war and Churchill's stewardship. Best of such U.S. books was Dramatist Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, perhaps too worshipful of both men, but the clearest view yet of the war at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin level. Overshadowed by these two, but important for the record, were The Memoirs of Cordell Hull and Henry L. Stimson's On Active Service in Peace...
...continued high rate of spending for plant expansion and new construction, which now accounts for about 6% of the gross national product. Said he: "As long as that [expansion] continues ... I am sure that the impact on consumer goods and durable goods will give us a high level of national income...
...Under ideal conditions, Emerson D varies from six to eight, Mallinckrodt MB-9 just reaches nine, and the handsome new indierctly-lit lecture room in the Institute of Geographical Exploration registers little higher. The New Lecture Hall comes through with six-foot candles, accepted as the optimum light-level for gymnasium lockers and public washrooms...