Word: egalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AIMS. The goals of the movement range from the modest, sensible amelioration of the female condition to extreme and revolutionary visions. The first camp includes the likes of Betty Friedan and emphasizes a more egalitarian society: equal pay for equal work, a nation in which women are not blocked from access to education, political influence and economic power. Items on the immediate agenda...
...tests at the age of 11 and then are divided into the brightest 20%, mostly middle class, who go to academic "grammar schools," and the slower 80%, who are sent to "secondary modern schools." In the 1950s, authorities began slowly merging these two kinds of schools into more egalitarian institutions called "comprehensives," which now make up almost one-third of the secondary schools. Mrs. Thatcher's first official act was to slow the pace of these mergers...
...foundations had been firmly laid. As Mrs. Gandhi said in her speech to Parliament, the leaders of the People's Republic of Bangladesh?as the new nation will be officially known ?"have proclaimed their basic principles of state policy to be democracy, socialism, secularism and establishment of an egalitarian society in which there would be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex or creed. In regard to foreign relations, the Bangladesh government have expressed their determination to follow a policy of nonalignment, peaceful coexistence and opposition to colonialism, racialism and imperialism...
Another Vision. The racial mix meant racial tensions. A group of black youths at Brooklyn College complained when militant Jewish students kept playing an Israeli song on a campus jukebox, and an ugly fight followed. In classrooms, the conflict between elitist teachers and egalitarian students is more subtle. When one young English instructor offered to share his knowledge of a Walt Whitman first edition with his class, a black student answered: "Look, man, you're into this first-edition bag, and that's all right with me, understand. But man, I think it's a crock...
...patient relationship and the direct fee for service are losing respect. The American Medical Association, traditional foe of any system hinting of collectivism, is losing membership.* Interns and junior residents, who once were to senior staff what braceros are to farmers, are talking back and dreaming of new, more egalitarian forms of practice. The line in the Hippocratic oath that pledges the neophyte to "hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents" is little more than a charming bit of irony for many of tomorrow's doctors...