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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great pleasure to learn that plans for your new center are proceeding forward with out hitch. It does to me, however, that a more suitable name might be found for the model community than "Pusey Bluffs." Since to town won't be more than about six feet above sea level, wouldn't "Pusey Flats" be wiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Files | 5/12/1969 | See Source »

...innocently and despair more deeply than others. Flaubert had some good advice for intellectuals of every stripe: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself." That risk is unusually high among today's divided intellectuals; perhaps if they lowered their own idiocy level, the rest of society would follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE TORTURED ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN AMERICA | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free time in such a way as to raise their general cultural and professional level, to improve [themselves] physically and esthetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Discovering the Weekend in Russia | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Analyzed monthly by the Commerce Department, the leaders are indexes that tend to foreshadow the pattern of production, paychecks and prices. In October, the leaders began to level off; for the next five months they zigzagged. During March, to judge by the eight indicators for which the results were in last week, they dropped about 1 %. The apparent shift of the leaders strengthens forecasts of a salutary slowdown in the second half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE FIRST SIGNS OF A SLOWDOWN | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...spirituality remains quite alive; but on the bodily level we can see that drug-induced variations are just as "natural" as feelings otherwise chemically produced...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Outline for the Coming Chemical Society, Or Dexedrine vs the Old Academic Process | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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