Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal to base the machines on a cushion of neoprene, the vibrations and the headaches disappeared. At another plant, he reduced a near-epidemic of severe chest pains by raising the workers' chairs and modifying the seating angle. Much too low in relation to the work level, the chairs had compelled the workers to keep their arms in an agonizingly upraised, elbows-off-the-table position...
Students have been sitting on the committee since last February when a number of biology concentrators complained about the dearth of lower level courses. The other issues came up at meetings of the concentrators and in a questionnaire...
...critcize Feuer's use of adolescent psychology as too crude. More goes into the making of a student activist than the two drives of altruism and generational hatred. But his sophisticated treatment of the generation as a historical unit compensates for this lack of couth at the individual level. The concepts of deauthorization and gerontocracy explain convincingly why generational revolt occurs at one period and not another. A more thorough discussion of student populism, however, might have included the "neighborhood effect" at Columbia and Harvard. It might also have explained how the politics of university administrations aggravate generational hatreds...
...really is not way of getting around it. Dylan seems too happy to be able to create masterpieces and one is glad only for his sake. There will be more records in the future, no doubt, but will they not be like Nashville Skyline, pleasant an perfect but low-level? And to think I almost didn't believe once the old saw that artists have to suffer or they're not artists...
...calmly. Washington meanwhile has succeeded in maneuvering the Saigon government into a more tractable position vis a vis the National Liberation Front-a necessary shift if negotiations in Paris are ever to succeed. Despite Nixon's denial last week of firm plans to reduce the U.S. troop level in Viet Nam, no one would be surprised if the Administration takes that option in the near future...