Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S Essay on criminal justice [July 16] informed the layman and aroused him to become concerned about law. What was most commendable was your trenchant analysis of the real problem, so often overlooked: equal rights under the law, whether of offended or offender...
...Johnson. Even during last week's speech about military might in Viet Nam, Johnson could not resist repeating his dream: "Now I am the President. And it is now my opportunity to help every child get an education, to help every Negro and every American citizen have an equal opportunity, to help every family get a decent home, and to help bring healing to the sick and dignity to the old ... That's what I've wanted all my life since I was a little...
Plumbers & Philosophers. Johnson quoted a passage from one of Gardner's books, Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? Wrote Gardner: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." Said Johnson: "Any man who can believe that and write it is the kind of man who ought to become the President's leader of the fastest-growing department in this Government...
Vote at 18? Nor is this all. This year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...
...away in the rural U.S. (as well as among urban hobbyists) nimble-thimbled women who follow historic patterns still exist, but the qualities that make a good quilter are hard to come by in modern times. Explains one mistress of the art: "It demands steady nerves, a pleasant temperament, equal dexterity with either hand, an inborn sense of line and form, Job's patience and time galore...