Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Identity happily has fulfilled its promise to publish College poets. The level of the poetry far exceeds that of the last issue, and includes three runners you normally find in The Advocate's stable. Editor James Manchester Robinson hasn't shortened his name by a syllable; but his judgment, or perhaps the material on hand, leapt far and handsomely (if you neglect his continued pre-occupation with poetry as a graphic device, so garishly splashed across the center-fold). Sandy Kaye, Arthur Freeman and Stephen Sandy contribute good stuff...
...deficit in E.P.U.-will have to keep inter-European payments more closely in balance than before. Along with this consequence of convertibility went another risk -the prospect that any of the ten new "convertible" nations that fails to control its domestic inflation and maintain its exports at a high level will be faced with a deadly run on its gold and dollar reserves...
...demand about half a movie's budget, and get most of it under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...
...gimmick here, the Survey explains, is that the earth is not a sphere. The centrifugal force of its rotation makes it bulge outward at the equator. Since the oceans rotate with the earth, sea level follows the bulge. The Mississippi starts its journey 1,491 ft. above sea level at the latitudes of Minnesota. As it moves southward, its water feels more strongly the lifting effect of the earth's spin. Therefore, it can climb up the bulge, away from the earth's center. When it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it meets the ocean, which has been...
...most important aspect of the educational revolution is the expansion of our educational system at the highest level, thus producing more and more men with graduate training. This in turn has made possible the entry of science into the main structure of our society, Parsons said...