Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. The author's fourth novel, a powerful, timely and imaginative reconstruction of a Negro slave uprising in 1831, installs his name at the top level of contemporary writers...
Vitale analyzes the game like a science; Manchester, who only started playing as a high school senior, loves to get in and hit people regardless of the level of competition; Weiss, will leave with a year of eligibility left, finds it harder to get up for each game. Brooks has had pro feelers; Manchester would like to play semi-pro on weekends; Vitale would like to coach at some point; Weiss wants to get on to law school; Burns's interest is in the people and not a lasting one in the sport...
...campaign for The Freedom Budget is a conventional political campaign: "There is a close analogy to the civil rights movement. This movement started at the grass roots and involved action at every level. But it gained substantial support only through leadership decisions made in a federal courthouse in Washington, a Federal Congress in Washington, and the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The need for this is even more apparent on the economic and social front," says the literature...
...most important internal need for ideology grows from the slowly developing awareness of a profound discrepancy between what this social system has the power to provide its members and what it actually makes available to them. Technological resources are adequate to provide a very high level of material welfare to the entire population if the control over these facilities can be made to pass progressively from the hands of a self-high level of material welfare to the entire population if the control over these facilities can be made to pass progressively from the hands of a self-authenticating business...
...many issues. Even Brezhnev was dealt a setback recently when the Politburo cut back by 13% his fiveyear, $45 billion crash investment program in agriculture. Kosygin was reported to have opposed bringing Sinyavsky and Daniel to trial but to have been outvoted by his colleagues. The move toward high-level democratization has in no way been institutionalized, however, and it is still possible that one man could again gather all the power into his own hands...