Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress passes Elementary and Secondary Education Act, first massive federal aid to schools...
...sought to take away the Government's most effective integration weapon: the authority granted to HEW under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to withhold federal aid to school districts refusing to carry out adequate plans for desegregation. The Whitten amendment specifically barred HEW from withholding funds to force bussing, the closing of schools or the reassignment of pupils against parental wishes. In effect, it authorized evasive "freedom of choice" desegregation plans, which the Supreme Court has already declared inadequate...
Obese Orchestras. Thereafter, everybody got into the act. From Mozart to obscure professors, composers reorchestrated and rearranged The Messiah. Since everybody wanted to sing it too, the choruses became enormous, and orchestras swelled proportionately. On the theory that if Handel had had a big orchestra he would have used it, a series of uncalled-for instruments puffed Handel's clean, baroque textures into plodding Victorian obesity. This musical elephantiasis reached some sort of a climax in 1959, when Sir Thomas Beecham recorded a Messiah that sounded a bit like Richard Strauss's Elektra: with cymbals, bells, triangles...
...dissenters criticized the majority for basing their ruling on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, since Congress had passed newer open-housing legislation in 1968. Arguing that interpreting the old statute was thus of little importance to the public, the minority said that the court should not have heard the case...
...Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, Congress' tough response to popular demands for stronger action against crime...