Word: equalize
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These convictions are held by a highly civilized Frenchman named Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has devoted his professional career and seven books to the proposition that, in their potential, all men are intellectually equal. They have probably been equal for something like 1,000,000 years-a bridge of time that carries the world back to the Pleistocene Age and the rude beginnings of social life. It was then that ancient ancestors of modern man equipped themselves with the first language and the first culture and, in so doing, set a pattern that has been followed ever since...
Different But Equal...
...novelist's purpose. The formlessness of structural fiction stems from a reliance on the creative inspiration of the unconscious-the hidden intellectual code. At an even more arcane level, literary critics are using structuralism to redefine-and enhance-the critical role. In its name they have demanded equal billing with the works they judge. "It is inconceivable," says Roland Barthes, one of the movement's chief spokesmen, "that the creative laws governing the writer should not also be valid for the critic. All criticism is criticism both of the work under consideration and of the critic...
Down the centuries, an extravagant portion of human energy has supported the position that, because of their differences, men are not equal. There is no room for this in Lévi-Strauss's view of humanity. "Respect for others," he writes, "springs spontaneously and naturally in man, long before reasoning and its sophistries come into play." Elsewhere, he maintains that "insofar as man is worthy of respect, it is not just civilized man of today or the future, it is the whole of mankind...
...smoking habits. Urging the National Heart Institute to set up a far bigger study, the committee suggested that at least 40,000 men in their 40s and 50s who have high cholesterol levels but no evidence of heart disease be placed on special diets. At the same time, an equal number of men with similar characteristics would serve as "controls" by continuing to eat as they please. Even if the Heart Institute acted immediately on the recommendation, however, no decisive results could be expected until 1975 at the earliest...