Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost unattainable. Even if the Administration is right in its prediction that the economy's upward surge will push federal income in fiscal 1960 to an alltime record of $75 billion, a deficit of more than $4 billion still looms if spending stays at this year's level of $79.2 billion. And the pressures on spending are upward, not downward: the fantastically elaborate military hardware of the missile age keeps getting costlier, each international crisis makes defense cuts harder, and demand for Government services keeps spreading...
Each country came by the craze in its own way. In Paris, Jacques de Saint-Phalle, whose respectable business has been the manufacture of plastic tubes for hospitals and laboratories, decided to hop aboard the bandwagon-but on "a snobbism level." In France, he reasoned, the quickest way to get a fad started was to set the intellectuals to doing it. First intellectual to have her picture snapped inside a hoop: Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan. With shapely entertainers getting into the act, Saint-Phalle had another fear: that the church might find the hula movement erotic and condemn...
...same Hulot, same pipe, same coat, same well-meaning, bland incompetence. This time he comes to preposterous unintentional grips with post-war prosperity, the modern source of the bourgeoisie that the French have ridiculed for a hundred years. And his skill for satire, apparent on only a personal level before, is strengthened by the theme and enhanced by his fuller control of the production. Tati's broadside satire of the modern scene is sharp, and cuts particularly deep since in America there don't seem to be even any shabby unsuccessful humanists left for a comparison--everybody is like Hulot...
...under study and development by members of the Psychological Laboratory in Memorial Hall. The work has been financed by two annual grants from the Fund For the Advancement of Education, and its purpose is an "investigation of the place of teaching machines in the employment of college-level teaching resources...
Using the more complex machine for high-school and college level often requires a system called "vanishing." In learning a poem, for example, first certain insignificant letters are omitted, then important letters, then unimportant words, then more important words. After that a whole line is dropped out, then increasing numbers of lines, and in a surprisingly short time the student is able to repeat the whole verse without having made a wrong response...