Word: levels
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...though he was D'Artagnan. They saw fear and grief portrayed by belly-writhings and animal howls. They saw Olivier, in the first balcony scene, rush around like a dazed fireman trying to save a trapped maiden from the flames. The poetry that lifts the story to the level of tragic romance was simply not there...
Exports were way up: 51% ahead of the first quarter of 1939. But they were not up enough to lead the U. S. economy into a boom. Instead of booming, business activity (as measured by the Federal Reserve Board production index) backed & filled at the pre-war level, between 100 and 105% of the 1923-25 average. In certain industries, the war export market caused peak production, a real strain on capacity. But by & large, these were the industries that needed the stimulus least...
...form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius's symphonies, especially the last three, have an absolutely economy of notes. Yet within this seemingly small framework, and out of what seem the humblest thematic threads, they weave climaxes of epic dimensions...
...became convinced that the New Deal was a gigantic political scheme to raze U. S. business to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When...
...scientists attending a regional meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Tucson, Ariz, heard of a new addition to U. S. anthropology-Sandia Man, whose culture is even older than Folsom. Evidence for Sandia Man's greater antiquity is simple and clear: his culture level was found underneath a typical Folsom culture. Since the maximum age given for Folsom Man is 25,000 years, Sandia Man may be 30,000 years...