Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every big story produces its black headlines and its clattering bulletins, but the heart of the matter almost always lies at a deeper level. Getting to that meaningful depth is business. Some cases in point in this week's issue...
...engaged in a battle for our laws and courts, for the preservation of our freedom and way of life . . . We should have the backbone to stand against any tyranny, whether of some individual willing to sell our birthright for a mess of political pottage on the national level, or the reformers that would make us over according to the mess they have made for themselves, including the board of sociology garbed in judicial robes and dishing out the precedents of Gunnar Myrdal...
...press conference next day, President Eisenhower confessed that the affair was "puzzling." The treaty by which the canal was first built has twice been modified, he pointed out, each revision granting "a greater degree or level of rights to the Panamanians." What caused this puzzling tension between the U.S. and Panama, and the violence that grew...
...scales, and the rest filled mostly by Panamanians paid according to Panama pay scales (plus bonuses of 30% or more). When the change went into effect, Panamanian day laborers and artisans were led by politicians to think that they were going to be paid New York-level wages; when they were not, discontent began nagging...
...atmospheric effects, of fantasy laced with reality, of prayers interrupted with jokes, it creates its own heightened world. Part of Playwright Chayefsky's purpose in doing this is to cast light on the world of reality, to set up symbolisms, set speculation going. At this more complex level, The Tenth Man fails. But as a theater piece, well staged by Tyrone Guthrie and often well acted, it is both striking and enjoyable...