Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strength of her powerful serve-and-volley game. Down two games to four in the final set, she rallied once more while the ever cool Evert began to make mistakes. With the match tied at five games each, Evert's seeing-eye baseline shots suddenly went blind. Three forehands and a backhand went out of court, and Evert lost her serve. It was she, not the temperamental Czech, who had cracked: Evert won just 1 point in the last three games. Martina Navratilova became the new champion of women's tennis...
...none of its cases, said Brennan, had the Supreme Court ever ruled that the Constitution is color blind. It does not make sense, he declared, to try to eliminate the evil of racial discrimination and then forbid the remedies that are required to accomplish this. Congress avoided any "static definition of discrimination in favor of broad language that could be shaped by experience, administrative necessity and evolving judicial doctrine...
...affirmative action by the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act, the first significant federal effort to outlaw employment discrimination in private industry. Title VI of this law barred discrimination in federally funded universities and other programs, and Title VII barred it in jobs. Using what courts have called color-blind language, the act made it unlawful for any employer "to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise to discriminate ... because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
...have joined the students on the barricades. But if the dead can be enlisted in any battalion, the facts cannot. To be commemorated properly, Camus ought to be seen not as a statue but as a man, as flawed as his fellows. His loyalty to France, for example, could blind his foresight. "America," he declared in 1952, "is the land of the atomic bomb." When an American critic, Lionel Abel, countered, "You'll have one here, too, as soon as France can afford it," Camus confidently replied, "Never...
...Harvie Wilkinson, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who once clerked for Powell: "By temperament, he tries to find common ground among varying points of view." Powell hates to be categorized as liberal or conservative. Says he: "Not one of us is a prisoner of blind prejudices...