Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...requires the elimination of all existing discriminatory conditions, whether purposeful or inadvertent. It requires that a university contractor carefully and systematically examine all of its employment policies to be sure that they do not, if implemented as stated, operate to the detriment of any persons on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The contractor must also ensure that the practices of those responsible in matters of employment, including all supervisors, are nondiscriminatory...
Affirmative action requires the contractor to do more than ensure employment neutrality with regard to race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. As the phrase implies, affirmative action requires the employer to make additional efforts to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups formerly excluded, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the employer. The premise of the affirmative action concept of the executive order is that unless positive action is undertaken to overcome the effects of systematic institutional forms of exclusion and discrimination, a benign neutrality in employment practices will...
Saturday Night [Feb. 2] is the most "living" thing since "living color" started. SN is sophomoric-from sophos (wise) and moros (foolish). It is wisely foolish and foolishly wise...
Along with these revelations came some less grave?but still nasty?ones. In Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Airways fired its director of flight operations, E.B. ("Bernie") Smith. Only two weeks ago, he was pictured in four-color ads in U.S. magazines, describing Lockheed's Super-TriStar as "the most intelligent aircraft I've ever flown." But Cathay Pacific found that Smith was the official identified in Church subcommittee documents as receiving $80,000 in Lockheed money from an "unidentified British agent living in France." He got the payment for helping Lockheed sell planes to other lines...
...fortnight ago, turned out to be dull and far too stylized, but musically it was exciting. The Triumphal Scene was a staggering series of orchestral and choral climaxes. The Nile Scene, that exotic musical fantasy conjured up by Verdi to heighten the opera's denouement, shimmered with color and mystery...