Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whereas in the course of human affairs, history has shown that it may become necessary for a people to resolve the political affiliations which have connected them with another people and to assume amongst other nations the separate and equal status to which they are entitled . . . -Rhodesian Proclamation of Independence...
Lisa Kelley, who played Miranda, appears to be the twin of Lynn Milgrim, only a little less petulant. She was perfect. John Ross played Ferdinand with almost equal grace, mixing it, correctly I think, with the unsteadiness of a very young man who thinks he has just become king...
...indigents a year are tried without lawyers in U.S. courts -to say nothing of the problems that afflict millions of other poor Americans whose rights are often routinely ignored by landlords, merchants and faceless welfare agencies. The result, say experts, is the breeding of a dangerous disbelief in equal justice...
Last week the argument reached the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles. For five hours, before 200 fascinated spectators and the court's seven justices, nine lawyers presented oral arguments in seven consolidated test cases concerned with one overriding question: Does Section 26 violate the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment-a clause that has been held to bar only private discrimination that is clearly involved with "state action...
...problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they start an affair, he burns his notes and walks out. The reader may have beaten him to the exit. Prophet Wylie's inexhaustible choler dismisses with equal contempt sexual inhibition, racism, beehive hairdos, Middle Western accents and piped music. Perhaps it is time that a kindly cop asked him, gently, to move along...