Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FASCIST. A bungling Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and his philosophical prisoner (Georges Wilson) turn their clash of values into a sly satire of Italian history, circa 1944, mixed with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence...
...making the appointment, Johnson described Marshall as a "leading champion of equal rights under the law," noted that he was taking the new job, which pays $28,500 a year-$4,500 less than his federal judgeship-and has a tenure subject to the President's pleasure, at a "very considerable financial sacrifice." Marshall might find that sacrifice worthwhile-if there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court while Johnson is still in office...
...Free & Equal. If the setting is like a boys' prep school mess hall, the talk is still music. And even when participants joke about the master ("There is a man called Roody,/Who never seems too moody"), the remarkable gentleness and modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually...
...random noise generator with one ear while music was piped to the other. Stardust played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra, or by a piano with a vocalist chiming in, caused equal trouble. Eventually the doctors were ready to start "extinction therapy"-a sort of reverse Pavlovian conditioning in which a patient is trained not to respond to a particular stimulus...
...church cannot move with the times. Already it has come a long way toward acceptance of the principle that other personal values can take primacy in marriage over childbearing, and has long since abandoned the medieval view that sexual intercourse during menstruation and pregnancy is a sin equal to that of contraception...