Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked Mark, were there no black youngsters in her classes? Mrs. Shippen's reaction was immediate. "She really gave it to me for about five minutes," relates Mark. "She talked about mixed marriages and trash." She also proceeded to give Mark the boot, which saddens the determined civil rights activist. "If I'd stayed, I could have kept the pressure on her," says...
...feminists have solid legal grounds for other actions. Partly as a joke, Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, then 81, added "sex" to the section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of "race, color, religion or national origin." There was a good deal of laughter, but the House passed the bill. It has taken a while for feminists to grasp what they can do under Title VII, but charges of discrimination against women in business and industry account for about 7,500 of the 44,000 complaints filed so far with the Equal...
...fitting that women should be protected along with Negroes by civil rights legislation, because the metaphor of Woman as Negro has been expressed by practically every observer of feminine subjugation from John Stuart Mill to Yoko Ono. As Gunnar Myrdal noted in his classic American Dilemma, both groups have been hampered by the same prejudices: that they were inferior in many ways, and also that they believed themselves to be inferior...
...psychologist. The youngster on the left looks ahead, stolid and unafraid, but his older brother is already touched with care, and places his arm protectively around the younger. Dr. Henry Shiff, an intimate of Saint-Gaudens, was a surgeon in the Confederate Army who retired to Rome after the Civil War and there aided the sculptor when he was a struggling beginner. The refined strength of this tribute to a lifelong friendship sums up the sculptor's advice to his pupils: "Develop technique and then hide...
...couple of reasons for the merger are that Northwest President Donald Nyrop, a first-class administrator who was once chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, will pick up Northeast's jets for a bargain price and get a tax-loss carry forward estimated at $17 million for his company. Northwest, which earns most of its profits in the spring and summer, also could use Northeast's cold weather vacation traffic. In addition, Northeast's new Miami-Los Angeles run will tie in neatly with Northwest's newly granted routes to Hawaii and Japan...