Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regional chapters of the country's largest black law students' organization met at Harvard this weekend and heard, among other things, a call to help prepare friend-of-the-court briefs in a controversial affirmative action case now under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Church is making a mistake when it prevents interested and qualified women from being admitted to the priesthood, especially in view of the decline in the number of men interested in serving the church. I suppose when the church becomes desperate enough over the lack of priests, it will call...
...liberals in the Congress are likely to call for more social-action programs. The Congress is in a stubborn mood, determined to regain its powers. Says House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "There is no confrontation, but this is no rubber-stamp Congress...
...them. In areas like waitressing and sales, where employers consider physical attractiveness a primary requirement, women close to retirement age are very unlikely to find work. Above all, Howe concludes, this is a boon to the male-dominated economy, which has a constant supply of cheap, temporary labor on call...
Just as silence and darkness are one for the woman, so too sound and light are one for Krieger. Beckett's original stage directions call for one spotlight hung low in front to swing over the faces. Krieger has moved the spotlight according to her own design. She places it high behind the actors to play on the backs of their heads, on and off like the metronome. Since the stage is otherwise dark, the actors' faces cannot be seen. They appear only in outline, like the images of film negatives; or through their partially transparent urns like...