Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych...
...many more, he came across as a man of infinite compassion, a leader with unique empathy for the poor, the hungry, the minorities, and all those whom he termed the "suffering children of the world." As Attorney General, his brusqueness often offended high-level politicians and bureaucrats-yet he was ever ready to stand on his desk for half an hour to explain the workings of the Justice Department to a swarm of schoolchildren, whom he always addressed as important, interesting people...
...pattern was repeated less than a month later when the CEP softened up another traditional target of student attack on academic restrictiveness--the language requirement. The requirement was chopped from two years to one for those who don't show the necessary level of competence when they enter. The requirement now becomes simply one of a year's exposure--the CEP reasoned that two years didn't insure a very high level of competence and that the second year for many was more of a torture than an educational experience. While softening up the requirement itself, the CEP toughened another...
...early to tell whether Kennedy's career, his campaign, and the impulses he stimulated will have an immediate effect on American political life. On the national level, where his urgent voice and prod will be most sorely missed, the prognosis is tragically dim. Almost as depressing, the nation has been cut off from perhaps its most educational sport--watching and listening to the noisest, most enterprising U.S. Senator since George Norris...
National politics at Harvard is usually a game played by the Young Democrats and Republicans with some high level aid from a few Law School professors. But for a time this year it was different...