Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such choices, Schlesinger reads a "revolt of the low-level professional within the party organization against the New Deal and post-New Deal leadership . . . Anti-eggheadism is certainly part of the story. Another part of the story is an anti-Ivy League feeling which has been rankling for many years in the murky lower depths of the Democratic Party in the Northeast...
...poet, Robert William Service never sought the level of Percy Bysshe Shelley, would have been as out of place on Parnassus as Shelley in a Klondike saloon. The rhymes that made Service a millionaire w'ooed none of the nine Muses. They reek of male shenanigans and sweat, roar like a Yukon avalanche, teem with rude and lusty characters: Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins. Muck-Luck Mag, Blasphemous Bill Mackie. Dangerous Dan McGrew. "Rhyming has my ruin been," Robert Service once wrote, falling unconsciously into the balladeer's inversion. "With less deftness I might have produced real...
...diplomats of the great powers back up their scientists, the earth in a few years will be thinly dotted with observation stations, internationally controlled, packed with sensitive instruments, and each manned by 30-odd scientists and technicians. Most of the stations will be on level terrain, and as far as possible from cities, railroads and heavily traveled highways. Their purpose: to detect clandestine tests of nuclear explosives...
...companies, the Group 20 Players maintained the highest quality in choice of play and level of production. They offered four shows instead of the announced five, since two of the four proved to be such hits that each was held over an extra week, and the scheduled production of Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates was dropped at the season's close...
William D. Roberts designed another of his handsomely symmetrical two-level unit sets, complete with the celebrated gallery of ten ancestral portraits...