Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartbreaking job with personal dignity. At Franklin Roosevelt's request, he undertook a monumental study of all Government information agencies and their relationship to national defense, helped frame the charter for the Office of War Information. And in 1943, even while continuing to serve as a top-level Government consultant, he answered another call: he returned to Kansas State as its president...
...Central America, he has served as the President's eyes and ears in a critical area. "In the long view," wrote Milton in a 1953 report that has since become the foundation of Latin American policy, "economic cooperation, extended to help the people of Latin America raise their level of well-being and further their democratic aspirations, will redound to their benefit and to ours...
...Gaulle's response was a characteristic blend of symbolism and political savvy. It was in Brazzaville, far back in January 1944, that the general made his famed declaration, radical in French terms, that ultimately France's African subjects must be brought "to the level where they are able to participate in the direction of their own affairs." Now, hailing the city as a "historic place" for France, De Gaulle made a second Brazzaville declaration. Its gist: though a no vote on the constitution would exclude a territory from the French community, a yes vote would not bind...
...abundance of the English countryside's folk music. Together with his friend Gustav Hoist, he severed the bonds binding English music to Germany and France. He once wrote: "Have we not all about us forms of musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art? For instance, the lilt of the chorus at a music-hall joining in a popular song, the children dancing to a barrel organ, the rousing fervor of a Salvation Army hymn . . . the cries of the street pedlars, the factory girls singing their sentimental songs. Have all these...
...personal relationships between husband and wife. At a time when so much in our culture tends to depersonalize life-to erode and dissolve the old clear outlines of human personality -Christians may well give thanks for the chance given us to establish, in marriage, a new level of intimate, loving interdependence between husband and wife and parents and children, freed from some of the old disciplines of fear...