Word: levels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marijuana, in effective dosages, affects mood and decision-making centers of the brain, as does alcohol only at the level of drunkenness. Pot, in contrast to alcohol, has little effect on the mechanics of body movement, whereas the drunk is partially protected by being unable to carry out many of his impetuous, diluted inclinations. The pot high lasts more than four hours, is easily extended, and is not easily detected by those who should be warned of the partial incapacitation of the potted. The quality of the mind depends on the sum of experiences in judging whether information is reliable...
...Lawrence O'Brien, but lost him to Kennedy; there is no Humphrey cadre of veteran organizers to match Kennedy's. Humphrey himself, although he was a leading architect of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the 1940s, has never been considered a particularly astute tactician on the national level. In 1956, he openly sought the vice-presidential nomination, ran a humiliating third behind Estes Kefauver and John Kennedy. In 1960, Kennedy did not merely beat Humphrey: he exterminated...
...even--or especially--this word brings to mind the stereotyped image that the American business community is so worried about. The problem lies in the role of the manager, for that is the name applied to those who engage in the study of business, and it is on this level that most students must make a career choice...
...academic student will turn to the more "academic" professions: professor, researcher, scientist, lawyer--professions which involve freedom of intellectual activity. Furthermore, students are under the impression that business does not offer such intellectual freedom. The academically talented say they will be too constrained, too limited by the management level they are on, too limited to the manipulation of the great technocracy; business involves too much application and too little creative thinking. They feel that the role of manager will not give them rewards in line with their intellectual abilities, that they will not be free to invent and discover...
Before long, Harvard's enthusiasm for Indian education dwindled to a level which met the Indians'. Only a year after the College was built, President Chauncy began to hint that the building--empty most of the time--might be put to better use. A Harvard historian records that it was shortly being used principally "for to accomodate English scholars...