Word: levelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter circulated among Business School Faculty members outlined steps the school would take to handle student demonstrations. In the letter, Business School dean George P. Baker outlined three levels of disruption and said that only Level I--orderly demonstration -- was acceptable. In case Level II (restriction of free movement) or Level III (use of violence disruptions began, the letter outlined a series of responses--including the use of police--to "promote de-escalation to Level...
...students, and elected officers planned the activities. The Class of 1919 missed its Junior Dance because of the war, and envied the one held by the Class of 1902 in the Union. Lowe's orchestra thrilled everyone with such hits as "Rainy Day Blues," "Hindustan," and "On the Level You're a Little Devil...
...meetings on the housing convention's ordinance, the council heard everyone from professors to landlords and tenants testify for and against the bill, which would freeze rents at the January, 1968 level for four years, allowing increases only with the approval of a rent control board...
Love It or Leave It. The mayor found his salvation in Angelenos' apprehensions over racial and radical unrest. Like other cities, Los Angeles has witnessed campus turmoil down to the high school level. Mexican-Americans have been asserting their rights with increasing militance. Two extremist black organizations, US and the Panthers, have been feuding with each other as well as with whites. The promising community relations program promoted by former Police Chief Thomas Reddin has all but disintegrated recently, stimulating new tensions between police and the ghettos...
Much of what follows, unfortunately, should not be imposed on any reasonably alert reader. Though the author, a young Harvard Medical School student, deserves good marks for his science, fiction is his failing. The level of the prose is droningly simplistic-a prose style only partly justified by the fact that the main characters are laconic scientists. The characterization of the scientists and the lush seem to have been retrieved from the memory bank of some tired computer. And the magic of the gadgetry gradually cloys and clutters in the mind...