Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the U.N. meeting there was genuine high-level concern in Washington that Canada might not support the U.S. resolution to postpone for another year U.N. debate on Red China's admission. Wisely, Washington applied no pressure. Great Britain, however, did, arguing that Western unity was at stake...
...names of their most popular books. As a result of the poll, he has since bought D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (an overrated but filmable story of British miners) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (a-nearly unfilmable tale of four-letter words and high-level adultery...
...balloon hung steadily in the eye of the storm. Whenever it rose above a predetermined level, an automatic mechanism released a little of its buoyant gas. Whenever it sank too low, another gadget dropped a bit of ballast. Gentle breezes spiraling inward kept it always close to the storm's calm center...
...into politics," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told its members a fortnight ago-its first appeal for businessmen to work directly in political organizations. Chamber President William A. McDonnell advised them just how: "We must roll up our sleeves and get to work at the precinct and ward levels where political decisions are made and officeholders chosen." McDonnell's words underlined a significant change in business thinking about politics. In the past, many a businessman and corporation has played a part in making political decisions and choosing officeholders. But the influence has more often been exerted behind the scenes...
Golden Ghetto. Opposed to the no-goodniks are the do-gooders, who, according to the Lederer-Burdick ideal, live at the native level, stay outside the Americans' "ingrown social life," also known as S.I.G.G. (Social Incest in the Golden Ghetto), never shop at the PX, work with their hands, and do winsome things like playing the harmonica. Among the best of these is "the ugly American" of the title, a big, homely engineering genius full of bright, simple, technical ideas that the overambitious Asians want no part of. Like most of the "good" Americans in the book...