Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SIXTH--GOLD AND BLACK drops down to best class level...
Such shoestring operators are responsible for most of the third level's harum-scarum reputation, but things get a bit dicey at times even on the better commuter lines. Cleveland-based Wright and TAG airlines of Detroit accounted for all of 29 ground alerts at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport during one recent twelve-month period. Eight of the alerts involved closing the airport and rolling out the fire engines, though there were no accidents...
Through a treatment called systematic desensitization, a patient first learns deep muscle relaxation. Then, he imagines himself in a slightly frightening situation. When he feels completely calm, he moves up to a situation more anxiety-provoking. Ideally, he reaches the most terrifying level at the end of eight weeks and is able to control his fear...
...transcends the everyday. Without distorting reality it catapults in into a higher plane of sensation. Certain sublime moments in life can simulate the best art (or vice-versa). And certainly a divine fusing of sex and art, like Mobile Bloom's soliloquy, raises both to an incredibly exciting level...
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjoined commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the first stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...