Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...products that are radioactive too. If there are more than 300 micromicrocuries of radioactive material per liter of air in a mine, the mine is officially rated unsafe. Investigators found air in 50% of the uranium mines in Colorado and Arizona contaminated by four to five times the safe level of radiation. In one mine, they counted 47,000 micromicrocuries per liter...
...Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other or aggressively hogging the camera, the actors all seem loyally determined to play down to Actress Lollobrigida's level, and with the help of the worst dubbing job since Mickey Mouse first spoke in Swahili, they just about make...
...METAMORPHOSIS OF THE GODS, by André Malraux. With impressive erudition and zeal, Malraux tries to elevate the world's great art to the level of religion. He is persuasive enough when he finds the "spark of the divine" in religious art, less successful when he looks for it in secular painting. But few art critics have ever been more fervent in uncovering the meaning behind the artist's intention...
Reischauer, who returned last week from a six month tour of Asia, was pessimistic about chances for the development of a scholarly community with a true international outlook in southern Asia, even though education in East Asia has reached an extremely high level...
...went successfully from television to off-Broadway, other authors subsequently decided to skip the first step. The result is a cluster of television plays attitudinizing on live stages. But until any valid equation between Trendex potential and good theater is proven, plays which aim at the Bell Telephone Hour level of art ought to be kept off or swept off the boards. A good case might be made for these shows, though, on the grounds that plays with any dramatic pretensions are preferable to those which are explicitly commercial. A monstrosity entitled Greenwich Village, U.S.A. opened this fall with...