Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...
...Many . . . live miserably, and at a level far below their real capacity for effective and efficient functioning...
...this dreary, low-level accomplishment, the Commission saw "the greatest danger" to freedom. The giants of communication would either have to put their houses in order, or people might one day ask the Government to do it for them. Obviously government interference, "a last resort," would be a remedy worse than the evil. But the press's own record in self-regulation had not been good. The Production Code had merely made the movies inoffensive (in one sense); the radio was regulated by the unwritten code of advertisers "who will not risk making a single enemy. . . ." The American Society...
...time and money, and the caliber of the men, it was a disappointing report. But in its peroration, written by Philosopher Hocking, the Commission for once rose to the level of its argument. "The journalist," said he, "sometimes reflects that his art is one of improvisation, and that its products, being destined to pass with the interest of the moment, require no great care in their workmanship. Yet, just because it is the day's report of itself, it is the permanent word of that day to all other days. The press must be free because its freedom...
...talent for dullness." He rose early, spent his mornings reading "old books" and doing occasional writing; in the afternoon he casually drew and painted. Evenings, he smoked, played the spinet, and entertained a few local callers. "Day follows day with unvaried movement," he declared; "there is the same level meadow with geese upon it always lying before my eyes: the same pollard oaks: with now and then the butcher or the washerwoman trundling...