Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday is the Lord's day; sports, cinema and TV are forsworn for lengthy sermons of a dominee at the local church. The Afrikaner can, and usually does, treat his black workers with kindness. Yet there is never a sense that the black is, or even could be, his equal; in the common view, the black is a child of God who needs to be guided to civilization by the one who knows the way?the Afrikaner...
...Shaffer's work (he also is responsible for the film's screenplay) lies in the fundamental issues of existence raised by Dysart's mental meanderings. In his search to uncover the sources of Strang's obsession, Dysart observes that "a child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave." But the psychiatrist can only throw up his hands with an admission of resigned incomprehension: "Why those moments of experience are particularly magnified no one can say." From one perspective, the psychiatrist's reflections seem a recognition of the paradox that plagues his profession...
...this and other positions. University officials, however, have said repeatedly that their offer--of partial cost of living increases over three years--is final and not negotiable. The current wage rates, which start at $4.41 an hour, do not need to be changed, administrators say, because they are equal to or are above the wages paid for similar work in the New Haven area and at colleges throughout the Northeast...
Actually, a conservative Supreme Court soon seized upon the amendment to protect business interests, while down playing its racial objectives. State laws setting minimum wages and hours, for example, were initially declared violations of the due process "freedom of contract." More recently, the phrase "equal protection of the laws," long considered vague and toothless, has been dusted off to nullify a whole battery of practices not directly contemplated by the amendment's framers: malapportioned legislatures, residency requirements for voting and welfare, even some sex discrimination...
...doesn't have any more information than anybody else." Most scholars insist that the Constitution's strength lies in the "majestic generalities" that permit its adaptability to changing times. "In the context of 1868, the framers were reaching out very far to require equal treatment by states as to race," says Historian Harold Hyman of Rice University. "They left definitions vague, and that's good constitution drafting: leaving details to posterity." Adds Leonard Levy of Claremont Colleges: "We can't be governed by the dead hand of the past...