Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys are always on hand to run the 35-mm. CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters' President Dave Beck...
...Toll rates will be based on present levels, and Egypt pledges itself not to raise them more than 1% in the next twelve months; any increase beyond that level would be subject to "negotiations...
Secondari, an experienced novelist (Coins in the Fountain), wrote no Emmy winner in The Commentator, but the script is better than many and unique in coming to grips with a problem of backstage TV at the topmost level. Secondari's commentator creates a crisis by blasting a demagogic Congressman. The network backs him up (as CBS backed up Edward R. Murrow in his celebrated 1954 editorial against Joe McCarthy). But in the end-after speeches deriding the network board of directors as "careful coupon clippers'' and the advertising agencies as "prudent dispensers of panaceas and happy endings...
...supposedly ascending difficulty in various authors. Class discussion is quite broad, but examinations for the most part depend on the spewing out of prepared translations with an occasional cursory essay thrown in, and papers are almost unknown. Something beyond this should be expected of students theoretically beyond the elementary level. Analysis of text alone, however worthy as a discipline, leaves a good deal to be desired in transmitting paideia, for after all, facility in the language is only valuable insofar that it increases the student's understanding of the works written in that language. Because of the comparatively limited span...
Geologists have warned the city of Long Beach, Calif, (pop. 303,000) that if it does not do something fast, most of its harbor district, centering on the powerhouse of the Southern California Edison Co., will sink far below sea level...