Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Collins out of bed at 5:30 one morning last week to read him the first pink secret dispatch about the Chinese counteroffensive. Collins rubbed his eyes and dialed General Omar Bradley, asleep in House No. 1 at Fort Myer, Va. All that day the Pentagon's brass-level was gloomy with misgivings. Next morning the whole thing exploded when Douglas MacArthur defined "the entirely...
While feigning a respectable amount of civilized horror at the exigencies of battle, Breakthrough romanticizes the hell out of war. On the level of a shoot-'em-up action film with some coincidental resemblance to the events it pretends to depict, it is a well-staged, workmanlike job. As any kind of memorial to the men who died in its newsreel clips, it is a great deal less...
...bottom level, the masters are sharply divided on the midnight deadline which has been the most frequent proposal. Those masters who support the change reputedly maintain that (1) a women in a student's room at 12 is no more immoral than a woman in a student's room at 8; (2) the "social tone" of the College is damaged more by forcing men with dates to spend their evenings in bars than by allowing them to have dates in their rooms; (3) the high cost of entertainment and Harvard's inadequate common room facilities work a definite financial hardship...
...this liaison, if carried out along with other common-sense measures, could help NSA fulfill its most important function--that of providing contact between the College and other institutions on the student level. For example, less emphasis on service for students and more on informing them an their representatives about what other schools are doing cannot but help NSA better carry out this task...
...Hammerklavier" Sonata, op. 106, which Aitken projected so magnificently that it almost sounded "at home" on the piano. This was Beethoven in black and white, a Beethoven of great contrasts and climaxes, altogether a gigantic conception of a gigantic work. Some details of the performances appeared faulty. The volume level never wont below mezzo forte, so there could hardly be any distinction between forte and fortissimo. Some of the phrasing was so taut that it resulted in rhythmic distortion, and the first movement particularly seemed too choppy. Aitken held consistently to his "black and white" interpretation in the very long...