Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bottom of the main staircase. They are uniform, in shape and design, with the three windows that flank the stairway. The light, coming freely from both sides, gives the visitor ample illumination to study the figures with care from the balcony, which is on a level with the paintings. In Mr. Sargent's other Boston murals, the lighting and position are such that careful study is not convenient...
...this discovery, lies the only real remedy. Censorship by a few cannot help being prejudiced and narrowed by environment; but a wholesale spontaneous boycott of the "movies" by the people en masse,--and at present 20,000,000 attend the "pictures" in one week,--will bring up the level of production as nothing else can. The producers can take their choice of cutting out the usual aimless bromides, and bringing up the average to the standard now set by a few brilliant exceptions, or of going out of business entirely. Censorship will be hopelessly inadequate; the only effective substitute...
...moving picture standards, at present, are very low. Everyone grants that; most excuse it on the grounds of war conditions and post-war hysteria. The "movies" have not returned to "normalcy". For the last three years, the average level of production has not been much higher than the earliest days, when a picture showing action, mere movements of a man walking, was novel enough to succeed. The pictures of today, most of them, are in story and development hardly more advanced than the early cowboy and Indian stories, where the only difference in plots all of a pattern, the prairie...
...spoke of the constant effort that is being made by economists and statisticians both inside and outside the System, to keep track of production, of the activity of business, of the general price level, and of credit conditions, with the view of giving such timely notice as will tend to check inflation, and of utilizing the facilities of the System to abate the inevitable rigors of deflation. He expressed the hope that business men will in the future make increasing use of the monthly bulletins issued by the Federal Reserve Board and by the regional banks, watch carefully the reserve...
...prepared to accept, as apparently we must, the present price level, as substantially that around which the fluctuations of the business cycle must play during the coming decade, we can contribute powerfully to financial stability throughout the world. And, finally, if we adhere consistently to this view, we can make it clear that little indulgence can be expected by debtors who adopt policies calculated increase inordinately the burden of debt inherited from the Great...