Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate down if he had had a clear shot. If the city administration attempts, as it may, to equate the Lampoon's prank with the death of the MIT fraternity pledge and tries to make an example of the poor Poonie, hostility between town and gown will reach the level attained after 1952's Pogo riot...
Along with these graphics and sketches is a group of paintings, all by contemporary Americans. This section of the exhibition, while not as varied as the other, fails nonetheless to maintain the same level of quality in its own sphere. A few canvases stand out prominently. They are a still-life by Joseph Solman, a Provincetown vignette and still-life by Byron Browne and a still-life and "Judgement of Paris" by Manfred Schwartz...
...requests were ignored. Free to go into town when he wanted, Buck could have simply gone over the hill. But the institutional pattern had been stamped too deep in him. Five years ago some rough-and-ready tests of inmates showed that Buck was far above the "moderate imbecile" level at which he had been graded on admission. But he was also judged too old to make a change...
Tidbits & Optimism. By contrast with Hagerty, his new associate press secretary, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton (TIME, Nov. 18), is not a party to top-level Administration decisions-and not an experienced reporter. Though disgruntled newsmen accused Pressagent Wheaton of holding out on them when she protested her inability to answer their questions, the fact was that Vice President Nixon, Sherman Adams and other White House aides neither informed her of the real nature of Ike's illness nor consulted her on the abstrusely worded report in which Ike's doctors tactlessly took credit for being right in their...
Almost certainly, the Pope will appoint another science-minded cardinal to coordinate the activities of scientists within the church, represent the Vatican at scientific congresses and possibly, should the occasion arise, attend high-level international talks on atoms, armaments. The new scientist-cardinal is likely to be a Jesuit (the Society of Jesus produces many of the church's scientists). Possible choice: Australia's Father Daniel O'Connell, head of the Vatican Observatory. To replace ailing Cardinal Canali as deacon, the Pope will likely choose one of several Vatican monsignori. Among best bets for the remaining...