Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just what were the upper middle-class Blacks and whites who took part in the second Forsyth march protesting? Was it a revival of the Jim Crow mentality? Or was it the more subtle racism which now denies an equal opportunity to this nation's minorities? If they were protesting the latter, the protestors were marching down the wrong road...
This suits the curatorial temper of the Met's 20th century department very well. Its stress lies on connoisseurship and comparison, rather than on telling the whole story of 20th century art. The Met's modern collection is not equal to that task anyway. Apart from decorative arts and furniture, it consists of some 6,000 works and is smaller than the Whitney's; it hardly begins to compare in scope and depth with MOMA's 65,000 objects...
Could any successor equal Mr. B.? Alas, no. But Martins can take considerable satisfaction in several things. The company is dancing well, often marvelously. The box office is up, with the house more than 90% full. Also, it turns out, Balanchine was wrong when he predicted everything would change when he left; not much has so far. And Martins has just unveiled a minor triumph of his own: a 25-minute ballet called Les Petits Riens (Little Nothings), set to Mozart and performed elegantly by eight very youthful corps de ballet members. In his reticent way, Martins was bragging...
...survey, less than 1% of the senior executives at the major companies in the FORTUNE 500 were blacks. In one poll of black business-school graduates, 98% reported subtle forms of racism in their companies. Overall, a record 72,000 complaints of discrimination were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year...
...other feminists contend pregnancy leave simply acknowledges women's childbearing function and neutralizes its effect on career advancement. The California law "in effect equalizes working men and women," argues Christine Littleton, counsel for the Los Angeles-based Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace. "It is okay to recognize that women have some difference in their requirements," says Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who has criticized feminists in the past for denigrating the importance of women's child-rearing and family responsibilities. "This decision means that there is recognition at the highest legal levels that in order to get equal results...