Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this sort of arrangement that gives the most ordinary-looking reporter the Homeric breadth of vision that enables him with equal ease to write today of the copper economy of Chile and tomorrow about the prospects for the Republican Party in Mississippi...
...short span of the information operation as the press operates to meet the news of the day. You get the story when it is first reported. You get the answer back as to what's happening while it's important. The public scene is not set up to give equal prominence to the long-term underlying, less spectacular factors that really need to be kept to the fore...
...been so hypnotized by propaganda that they no longer realize this. There is an aching need for one courageous Arab leader to call reality by its name and break the spell of illusion. But it can scarcely happen now. It probably cannot happen until the Arabs begin to feel "equal and different" toward the West, including Israel; until they find sources of pride and confirmation of manhood in causes other than holy war; until they begin to distinguish the difference between word and deed. That day seems remote...
...though the result can in no wise be called a translation. In fact, Anouilh's play contains only one line that is an exact rendering from Sophocles. Anouilh preserved the actual story intact, but subjected the entire affair to a deep and thorough rethinking. If he was unable to equal the lofty grandeur of the original, he nonetheless did create one of the supreme French plays of our century...
...also recommended that the U.S. remove all discrimination against Peking as a means of reducing tension between the two radically different countries. We should put China "on an equal basis with the other Communist countries in trade, in the U.N., and in any other ways we can arrange," he proposed...