Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of the Gilbert & Sullivan-like alteration, prizes that were once limited to males because the bequests specified students of Harvard College as recipients were now open to women. Therefore, 32 prizes, prize fellowships, and prize scholarships, along with 22 that had been opened up to equal access in 1971, were now available to both men and women...
...hard to win. The ERA is worded very vaguely, "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged... on account of sex" and in every case we know of it has been used to cut out protective legislation, never to extend those benefits to men. Equal access to law school for a few, while a good thing, should not be at the expense of the millions of working women in this country...
...small-town life has been modernized and is no longer stultifyingly isolated. The interstate highway system, 88% complete, brings most of the remoter regions to within an hour or two's drive of a city. Jet planes and a growing number of airports provide similar ease of access to he outside world. Television pipes its news and entertainment into the countryside. Along with lesser fare, Live from Lincoln Center can now be seen across the country without going to New York and paying the price (up to $25) of a ticket Universities have opened branches and hundreds...
...national theater. The recent Napoleonic efforts of the indefatigable Joseph Papp demonstrate that without the framework of tradition, such hope was unrealistic. What is needed is the meshing of disparate elements into an organic whole. The salient factors are the physical plant, the guiding personality, common aesthetic purpose and access to the public purse, together with the mature seasoning of tradition and the ability to cope with the carpers who greet every visible defect as a disaster...
Sections of the final regulations for implementing the federal law that gives students access to their school files are being held for review by F. David Mathews, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...