Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cases involving issues of race are today no longer as clear cut as they were when the Supreme Court rendered its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, writing that separate schools were not equal. Today, courts debate whether statistics can prove a racist justice system, even if there is no particular person who can show that he has been wronged. The Rosa Parks age has passed...
...visited your classes. You know that racism and discrimination have not vanished into history, that they are as much in the present as in the past, and that your goal is to not let it pass into the future. You know that as long as our children are denied equal access to the American Dream, your work must...
That assessment was, to say the least, inopportune. When he died last week at 94 in the Spanish capital, Segovia had put the guitar on a near equal footing with the piano, violin and cello as a solo concert instrument; he had also won for himself a place among the most influential performers of the 20th century...
...statement. "Life is healthier here," says Ami, chunky and round faced, with a bush of dark curly hair. "In the city, we fought a war for money month after month," adds blond, Paris-born Chantal, a nursery school teacher. "This place is exciting. We're building, and we feel equal...
...some face increasingly aggressive rivals. Hearst's Harper's Bazaar, the tony fashion journal that has run second to Conde Nast's Vogue, is now being challenged by the frisky, well-designed Elle, an American cousin of the French original. House Beautiful is losing ad pages to its onetime equal, House & Garden, which has gone upscale by offering lavish picture spreads and admiring articles by well-known writers about the residences of the rich and well furnished...