Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Marshall and Acheson meant was that the pressing struggle between communism and Western Democracy was not on a military plane or even (except as a means to an end) on an ideological level. It was a struggle between the U.S. and economic anarchy-a war which the U.S. must wage with food and fuel. On the outcome of that struggle depended the survival of the democratic world and the world's future. It was not only the world's prime ministers and premiers who turned to the U.S. The young turned their pinched and inquiring faces westward...
...graduate level, the Medical School eating place will be closed during the summer, but Cowie hall, which feeds the Business School, will remain in operation. Law School students, who eat at the Graduate Dining Hall, will also find their cafeteria in operation during the summer months...
...story and one poem rise perceptible above the level of the rest. "The Horse Lover," by Lee Ann McCaffrey, achieves suspense right up to the end in its tale of the fate of a high-spirited horse that has killed a man. Neither the style nor the Characterization is superlative, but the author's judgment preserves an overall effect that is convincing. The poem, "The Death of a Friend," by Judith Nelson, was chosen by Professors Matthiessen and Levin to be Radcliffe's entry in the Eastern College Poetry contest. It is a mature piece of expressive writing, and consequently...
Stassen: ... I believe we can regulate our capitalism and stabilize our production and employment at a high level without any serious crisis...
Such a Miscalculation. Soviet spokesmen could rant & rave; they had plenty of time for it. The prolongation of Europe's plight played into Communist hands. This was the level where the Soviet Union was well equipped-the ideological level, where Communism feeds on misery and despair. So the inevitable question arose: "What does the U.S. do next...