Word: leveler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...base...Out of service at the Sachs Estate," he radios in. "The behavioral sciences are good to study--it helps you deal with people. We all have a different way of our fuses going off. It's like a step ladder-we either revert to the lower level or we rise to the higher one. Cognitive is what I'd like all people to be--a cognitive person will say 'we,' and an egocentric person is always thinking what's best for 'me'." He walks through the Estate, which is known to be a favorite hangout for many alcoholics...
...incident. The awareness program operates at the same time the Criminal Investigation Unit (the undercover cops) searches for clues, interviews potential witnesses and fingerprints the building where the larceny occurred. Lt. Lawrence Fennelli has visited the Houses and the Freshman Union, conducting informal talks with undergraduates to raise their level of crime awareness. As Chafin says, the community has to cooperate in order to keep crime down...
...ballet is basically a good-will-be-rewarded morality tale, and the characters are conceived on this level. There are the ugly stepsisters (David Drummond and Larry Robertson), cavorting with bovine vulgarity, the shrewish stepmother (Elaine Bauer), and Cinderella herself (Laura Young), a painfully angelic victim. We can't be expected to take these people seriously, and Cunningham doesn't either. Large chunks of the ballet are given over to slapstick--the stepsisters squabble tug-of-war fashion over a shawl, or trip over each other to greet the Prince (Woytek Lowski). The liveliest moments are high comedy having nothing...
...grade school. By the time he was 15, Smith was playing up to 100 games a season and he made the last 22 of the British junior national team in his senior year. But, even there, Smith had to adapt. "It's certainly the first time, at the school level, that I've been on a losing team," he says. "In a few games it's hurt my game. Sometimes it seems it's been a struggle...
...soccer represents a personal challenge for Smith. "I always want to play as high a level of soccer as I can. It's been important to me. It's been one of my main achievements through school...