Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reed, would also give doctors a chance to find out whether the radiation treatment had arrested the spread of his cancer. After he found the answers, he would decide whether to 1) carry on as Secretary of State, 2) resign as Secretary but carry on in perhaps the high-level, influential capacity of presidential adviser on foreign affairs, or 3) resign and retire. Last week's clues, for the deduction-minded, were few. Said Dr. Kamin: "He's aggressive in his convalescence. He's perking up since he came to Florida. He stays in the pool...
...longer constitutes the badge of the avant-garde nor is limited to the culture containers at Smith and Wellesley, a parallel phenomenon to the culturalization of the bourgeoisie has been the increasingly bourgeois nature of culture. In gaining wider acceptance the forms have undergone alterations: the "modern split level colonial ranch house with cathedral ceilings" advertised in suburban Boston hardly describes Wright's "Falling Water...
Speaking on "Policies of the Democratic Party," the New York City politician said the party's strength rests on rank-and-file members in the nation's 125,000 election districts. Their views, he continued, "ultimately determine policy at the county, state, and national level...
...complicated by the fact that none of the services it provides (particularly the schools) are as good or as extensive as the civil servants who run them would like them to be. The fact is that the City (like the State and almost all other governments below the Federal level) honestly needs more money than it is getting even with the present record budget. Citizens are willing to be served by their cities and states, but unwilling to pay the cost...
...concentrate more upon marks. In the long run, girls come out ahead, Edward P.Morris, head tutor of the Department of Romance Languages, says. This superiority, however, is not due to innate ability, but rather to "instilled habits." "Fewer girls than boys get E's. Their average minimum level of conscientiousness is probably higher than the boys'," I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science, points out. "Whenever I've heard of someone spending a preposterous amount of time on some project like a paper, it has generally been a girl. For instance I read in the Confidential Guide...