Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end the U.S. will achieve "the highest level of employment and the lowest level of unemployment ever experienced in peacetime," predicted Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell to a gathering of New York businessmen last week...
...Soak the poor," followed him on TV with a collection of shirts, shoes and milk bottles to demonstrate the family buying power that would be sapped by his proposal to lower state income-tax exemptions ($2,500 per couple, $400 for each dependent) to the $600-per-individual federal level. One night, when he stood up to open a sports show in Manhattan, he was roundly booed. Rockefeller spoke through the boos, grinned gamely: "Who's going to dance in the streets when they have to pay more taxes...
What can Protestantism do in the present crisis of modern man who "no longer possesses a world view in the sense of a body of assured convictions about God, the world, and himself"? Protestantism, says Dr. Tillich, cannot offer such a world view: "it must fight from above this level to bring everything under judgment and promise." This cannot be done, he says, simply by asserting theological truth, or by going back to the Reformation's theme of justification by faith alone. It can only be done by, in effect, driving man to the painful extremity of accepting...
February production of 478,000 cars was a jump of 22% from 1958's low level, yet nearly 100,000 units short of both 1956 and 1957. The comparison can be misleading, since suppliers' strikes have braked output, notably at Chrysler, and the industry is only now starting to roll in high gear...
...Yard-dwellers seem obvious. First there is the familiar chant, "Everybody lives in the Yard." Incoming Sophomores, especially those with Harvard fathers, often feel that the Yard is a part of College life not to be missed. Furthermore, the new Sophomore likes to seek friends at his own age level; in the Yard he is equal to all in years while being superior to most in scholastic attainment. In its circular, the A.P. Department proposes a compromise plan: let the new Sophomore live in the Yard for a term, and then let him move to a House. This rarely happens...