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Word: diploma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bebb? A sleazy evangelist, the Lord's pitchman, the proprietor of an ordination-by-mail diploma mill. Parr sends Bebb the suggested love offering and becomes an ordained preacher by return post. Bebb himself appears shortly thereafter: fierce and shrewd and seedy, awash in the blood of the lamb-and in plans for beggaring the Internal Revenue Service. He is there, he says, to save Parr's soul and teach him gainful godliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gainful Godliness | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...right to express his political views in class, then proceeded to expound to the stunned faculty on the virtues of isolationism and the political ignorance of the school staff. He attacked his alma mater in God and Man at Yale hardly before the ink had dried on his diploma. He has run a noisy third for Mayor of New York and called Gore Vidal a queer in front of twenty million television viewers (and later apologized). In addition, he is Mr. Conservative, middle America's Village Explainer, whose intellectual balm eases the joints of the political animal that includes Wallace...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The Right The Governor Misseth | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

...record showed that Duke had employed blacks only in menial tasks before the 1964 Civil Rights Act took effect. As soon as it did, a group of blacks sought better jobs and were promptly confronted by a battery of promotion requirements. Workers had to have either a high school diploma or pass the intelligence test, which obviously had little to do with a man's ability to unload coal. The 13 blacks failed the test but were smart enough to challenge the legality of the screening process. Represented by the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, they argued that the tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Flunking Job Tests | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...Radcliffe (those accepted and those rejected) can testify that she has indeed experienced overwhelming sex discrimination here. Is it not sexism when prospective students are told that they will attend the same classes, be taught by the same faculty, use the same facilities, and eventually receive the same diploma as male students, yet only 300 of them will be accepted as compared to 1200 men (Radcliffe's total enrollment...

Author: By Deborah K. Greenberg, | Title: The Mail 'SHIELD?' | 3/11/1971 | See Source »

...pitch sounds like something from a matchbook cover: "Earn a degree at home in your spare time." The degree, however, is perfectly valid. The institution making the offer, which will take effect next winter, is no instant-diploma mill but the prestigious State University of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Without a Campus | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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