Word: equalization
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...evoke antique comedy, or at least its descendants in vaudeville and burlesque, Hall interpolates music, dance and choral antics. The most modern moment has James remove her mask to confront the audience about global tolerance of violence. Translator Ranjit Bolt, who also worked with Hall in Tartuffe, displays equal sensitivity to Aristophanes' world and to contemporary parallels in, say, Bosnia...
...Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day celebration, did not leave the tarmac at Denver's airport before stating his differences with the man who met the plane. Bill Clinton, who supports abortion rights, stood impassively behind the Pontiff as he exhorted a small crowd, "If you want equal justice for all ... then, America, defend life!" Clinton took it gamely, pronouncing the speech "great," and the two retreated for a private talk, which aides said centered on Bosnia...
Nelson is recruited by The Post for its Sunday Magazine in 1986. She claims her hiring was a cynical attempt to comply with an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) decree that "the paper make 'a good-faith effort' to hire more women." Tired of the financially precarious lifestyle afforded by her activism, she accepts the Post offer with its attendant security...
Dowling allegedly suggested that he could find Diaz another job in the University, perhaps in custodial work, where the immigrant from El Salvador could "be with his own kind." Dowling has denied making the comment, and the University, the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission all ruled against Diaz when he appealed his case to them...
Political fashions drift from left to right. The enthusiastic sectarian style of American communists during the 1930s and 1940s traveled with the neoconservatives when they washed ashore as immigrants to the land of conservatism during the 1970s and 1980s. The rallying cry of race-blind equal opportunity, which was of little interest to right-wingers during the heyday of the civil rights movement, was later taken as the right's own in the struggle over affirmative action. And now, having spent recent years diagnosing a virus of democracy they label "political correctness," some conservatives seem to be succumbing themselves...