Word: levels
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...valid objections were Harvard University the entire electorate, or were Senator Kennedy's business as Democratic nominee something other than getting elected. The objections are worth exploring, if only as an indication of why Kennedy's campaign has failed to stir Harvard and similar communities to a very high level of emotional commitment...
...though hardly surprising--proposal is the elimination of the separate Radcliffe graduate school and the admission of women to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Noting, however, that "It is paradoxical that when President Eliot championed coordination in 1893, he favored joint instruction only at the graduate level," the committee seems to favor continuing the paradox. Its recommendation that Harvard and Radcliffe remain separate at the College level is based on the superficial arguments that woman students might suffer from lack of attention and that educational experiments might be severely curtailed under a joint administration. In reality...
...many, the current business slowdown is really an adjustment to the consumer's growing predilection for the myriad new services his money can buy. "This causes dislocations within the economy," explains Sears, Roebuck Chairman Charles H. Kellstadt, "but given the level of gross national product and disposable income, it is no cause for alarm. It simply reflects the fact that our rising standard of living has made us a predominantly consumer-oriented economy. It is not a case of not growing, but of growing in a new direction." In the past five years the real output of services...
...strong men. The ad industry has already run into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission for doctoring Brand X to ensure foolproof inferiority. Last week the inevitable happened: unable to resist the lure of all those free plugs, several firms are on the market with their own, on-the-level Brand X products...
...only weapon is irony; his heroes seem forever doomed to self-deceit, to rationalizing their weaknesses until they seem like virtues. In The Bridge over the River Kivai, a Colonel Blimp hurt his own, his men's and his nation's cause by raising boneheadedness to the level of character. In Face of a Hero, a lawyer transformed personal cowardice into a basis for public esteem. In the present book, a Free French intelligence agent turns traitor and yet convinces himself that he has won a personal badge of courage...