Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of concentrating on combating communism and socialism on an ideological level." he said. "We're going to present practical investigations of our present day economy which will show the dangers of New Dealism, planned economy, and paternalistic government...
...sentimentality." By this he meant that there was too much "ah!" and "oh!" worship, and too little at tempt to place works in their historical contexts. He might also have objected to the lack of critical interpretation in courses, a lack which is equally conspicuous on the undergraduate level in the Harvard English Department...
...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...
...edge of a Christmas buying season which had been expected to break all records, U.S. retailers last week broke forth in a rash of unseasonal clearance sales. Reason: for three weeks in a row, their dollar volume had fallen below the level of a year ago. To step it up, they marked down prices and bulged the newspapers with ads of eye-popping bargains...
...some cases (notably soft goods and furs) retail prices had fallen close to wholesale levels. The reason was that the cost of materials had fallen but manufacturers and wholesalers, loaded with goods made at higher costs, were still trying to get the old prices. Retailers wanted new stock at prices reflecting present costs. To move old stock they were trimming price tags to that level. Nevertheless, Lazarus felt that price cuts and better quality goods would boost December sales enough to take up November's slack, and more...