Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...
...university college" Harvard has many advantages over the independent college. The intellectual level of the community is higher. Specialists can be retained economically by being shared by the college and one or more graduate schools. Undergraduates can take seminars primarily for graduates, offered by graduate schools (This practice is much more common at Yale, where undergraduates major in such subjects as drama which are taught only at graduate schools...
...draws on all three fields, the Social Sciences surrenders an enormous amount of energy to the Graduate School of Public Administration. The Natural Sciences gains more from the graduate schools than it loses, for the schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health provide a large number of top-level instructors for limited use in advanced and specialized courses...
...present time, a radio set is the most intimate means of mass communication. Other countries have used it to considerable advantage in raising the educational level of their population...
OEEC is staffed by Europeans and administers the Marshall Plan on the European level, deciding how much aid should be allocated to each country. Williams was invited to the meeting of the OEEC by its Secretary General, Robert Marjolin...