Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange campaign," wrote Chicago Daily News Editor-Publisher John Knight last week. "Ike and his team will stick to the high road, while Stevenson . . . will campaign on a lower level than he did four years ago. It seems to me that the high-level pitch . . . is mainly a holding operation, which may actually lose much of the support Ike received in 1952 from independent voters and disgruntled Democrats. The Republicans, with a first-term record of 'peace and prosperity,' have a lot to sell. But they must sell it hard from now to November...
...chairs similar in nature to the University professorships have been established, it has been announced. The positions are designed to contribute specifically to the intellectual life of undergraduates in the College, rather than on the University level...
...level of pay was the strongest factor determining the attractiveness of of a job (to the emigres)." But "the most desirable jobs were those that paid the most and were simultaneously dangerous (politically...
...main purposes of Reischauer's tour were twofold. On the official level he went to visit certain universities in the Far East which the Harvard-Yenching Institute helps to support--altogether the Institute supports research and publications in about ten universities in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong--and on a more personal level he went to gain a first-hand familiarity with recent developments in the area...
Ervine's view is both more intimate and more level than that of earlier Shavian biographers, who usually presented him as a fabulous monster. Ervine is able to discuss his immense shyness, to chide him when necessary for the "tosh" that often came from his "spinsterly mind," to assert, against all previous evidence, that he was generous in money matters, and to dispose of Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor's assertion that "Shaw was never unhappy." Shaw's loveless childhood, drink-ridden father and hungry adolescence make it quite clear that few university dons have started life with...