Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such criticism is especially stinging to an Administration that contains an arsenal of economic brainpower. No fewer than five Ph.D.s in economics hold Cabinet-level posts. The President himself, as an ex-engineer and farmer-businessman, is comfortable with the charts and graphs that are the raw material of economic policymaking. Says one Council of Economic Advisers staffer: "Unlike so many lawyers in government, the President is used to thinking in numbers...
What that scene says is that no one-not even the semi-tough-minded among us-is immune to the absurdities of ideologies that hold out a promise of instant salvation. On a slightly deeper level, the movie is warning us to beware celebrities bearing false prophecies. Because of the absorption in self and craft that their work requires, performers-be they actors or athletes-can be easy converts, and therefore untrustworthy in their wayward enthusiasms for abstract realms. On the more positive side, the picture suggests that if salvation is to be had, it lies in that pragmatic resistance...
...Texas oilman who owns the team, attempts to proselytize for this cult. He has had an office built to facilitate practice of his new faith. It has a teeny-tiny door you can enter only on your knees, a legless desk resting on the rug, pictures hung at baseboard level...
...blood vessels and a precursor of heart disease-the leading cause of death in the U.S. Hence, the reduction of blood (or serum) cholesterol has become a prime goal of doctors and patients alike. Still, physicians have been puzzled by one observation: though some patients show a seemingly dangerous level of serum cholesterol, they somehow remain immune to coronary disease...
...Only Being, admitting Him as the sole dispenser of one's fate. Coming to pay tribute to the Creator, the pilgrim is no longer a subject of any state, system or regime, rather he transcends these restrictive impositions to a higher and more universal rank. On this level all are equal in their subjugation and God rules supreme...