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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S perceptive Nov. 16 indictment of a "shocking state of rottenness . . . deplorable level of public morality . . ." finds a most eloquent echo in the Wall Streeters' urge for those solid-gold golf putters at $1,475 apiece. Follow the leader, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the knowledge that they can avoid seeing a tombstone; graves, marked only with bronze plaques set level with the ground, are clustered in such consoling sites as Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Sweet Memories, Everlasting Love. Infants are buried in Babyland, which is "shaped like a mother's heart," and Lullabyland; every Christmas toys and tinseled trees are placed upon the graves. All day long, soft symphonic music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Caesar Special (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Comics Caesar and Audrey Meadows give assorted views of love and marriage from the Victorian parlor to the split-level living room. Jose Ferrer, Marge and Gower Champion, Connie Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Until MacLeish's recovery, his writing course, English Sa, will be continued by Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English. Humanities 136, MacLeish's upper level General Education course, formerly given in conjunction with the lecture series, will be continued by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lectures Cancelled | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard squad is a new intercollegiate event--the 200-yard individual medley. In this race, Yale already has on its team last year's Eastern champion, Foster DeJesus. The Crimson will counter with Gary Pildner and Tom Bartlett, both versatile, balanced, and improving, but neither up to DeJesus' level...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Swimmers Show Depth, Potential | 12/4/1959 | See Source »

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