Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last two years, civil rights organizations sought to force the government to provide equal voting rights, to end officially-condoned discrimination in housing, jobs, and education. The organizations got no-where with the usual meetings and pamphlets. So in August, 1968, they began civil rights marches...
Although the Civil Rights Organization began to apply more and more pressure and grew stronger and stronger, a split was developing within it. Some of the CRO people insisted that equal civil rights was all that they wanted, others began to think in terms of toppling the whole Ulster regime. An interesting problem faced the latter element-which called itself "the People's Democracy." Even assuming that the Ulster Constitution was toppled, what would happen to Ulster? Union to the Republic of Eire was anathema to the purists in the group, since to a true socialist, few governments could...
...would not be discharging our responsibilities if we simply recommended such a Committee without presenting our thoughts as to its composition. We have seriously considered the proposition that each of the faculties should fill an equal number of seats. Such an apportionment would dramatize that the proposed Committee on University Governance is not, and cannot be a representative body in any formal sense but is instead the most convenient forum for developing proposals which reasonable men with widely differing perspectives, have agreed deserve the most serious attention by the entire University...
...Editor's note: Although the Friendly Report suggested allotting representation on the committee according to the size of the various faculties, the full Board of Overseers gave President Pusey complete discretion in establishing the new committee. On the advice of the Deans, Pusey decided that equal representation would provide a smaller and more efficient body which could begin more promptly...
...early example of the disease of scholarship. "A journalist transformed in middle age into the most venerable of professors," he became for generations of students the "supreme exponent of English lit." He was also the classic exemplar of the winetaster theory of literature. Saintsbury, indeed, wrote with equal learning and authority on poetry and port but, alas, as if they were the same sort of thing. Pundits who teach poetry as a matter of the palate-or of professional gain-naturally detest and fear a creative man of letters like Ezra Pound, to whom poetry was a passion in which...