Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Arnold has done, and it is a grievous error, is underestimate his playwright by playing only for the surface values. While he does well by Sugar Plum and Indian on the superficial level, I don't think Horovitz would be too pleased with the overall result...
...have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. So wrote Upton Beall Sinclair of an era that cried out for reform at almost every level of American life. He was a quixotic dreamer, an eccentric, a compulsive dissenter in the intellectual tradition of a Thoreau or a Tom Paine. Yet Sinclair, who died last week at 90 in a New Jersey nursing home, battled so many causes to the finish that the American conscience and the quality of American life were permanently affected by his concern, courage and compassion. And, more than six decades...
Carroll M. Williams, Bussey Professor of Biology, said Wednesday that he believed the department should move its large introductory courses and one or two intermediate-level offerings to the Center...
...kids aren't uneducable," McCoy said, "they're the victims of uncommitted teachers and 'separate but equal' facilities." He said there are 9000 students and only eight schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. "These children are two and one half years behind white students of comparable grade-level. Many of them still cannot read or write in the 7th grade," he said...
...quietly stigmatized my own wrist a while before to determine whether or not I was asking too much of Steve; when I told him I'd had a fine time, and profited immeasurbaly from the experience with no visible scars, Steve reluctantly agreed to the low-level self-mutilation demanded of him. So, Johnny Hale shooting hand-held high-angle from an Adams House A-Frame, me on a second camera shooting close-ups, and a neighbor incessantly on the verge of passing out or throwing up, holding the lights, surrounded Steve at One A.M. on an April morning...