Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised by Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych's stark symbolism to a high level of creative cinema...
...Economist Mollie Orshansky. Her flexible income line rises for large urban families and recedes for those in rural areas, dipping as low as $1,180 a year for a single male on a farm, and soaring to $7,910 for a city family with eleven or more children. The level for an urban family of four?which is as close to a typical situation as can be found?...
Because of the historical limits on the power of the central administration, student representation on the Board of Overseers would be no substitute for increased student power at the faculty level. Neither the Board of Overseers nor the Corporation concerns itself with whether a Social Relations concentrator is required to take junior generals. That power has been delegated to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which in turn has delegated much of it to the departments. But precious little of it has been delegated to students. Even while students are seeking such control, however, they are entitled to a voice...
Within this system of government, which has no pretensions of being democratic, the Overseers can and do serve only as a pressure group. They grant final approval on appointments and on major statutes, but these matters are actually decided at a Faculty level and receive only a rubber-stamp from the Overseers. The presence of Overseers merely forces University officers to justify their decision intelligently to laymen--distinguished and sympathetic laymen to be sure--but still laymen...
...people of Barrington, once you get them to talk, are discontented. Their apartments are crammed in files of one or two level units. Each contains two bedrooms and a living room which melts into a kitchen. No room is larger than ten-by-ten. The FHA is soon to take over the private project. Monthly rents--already high--will be replaced by compulsory fiveyear leases. It will be impossible to raise a growing family in any of the available units...