Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film is, of course, valuable not simply as a murder mystery, but also as a penetrating examination of changing attitudes of both Blacks and whites-the former beginning to strive for his equal place in society, the latter, begrudgingly, beginning to accept it. Armed with intelligence and confidence, Davenport represents the changing American Negro-the connection between the scraping and subservience of the past, and the pride and self-satisfaction of the future...
...made by some members of the Dallas City Council. However, Mr. Feinberg implicates the white members while absolving the Black members. In my opinion, there are both white and Black members of the Council that are not fit for the job. Incompetence has been, in this case, truly an equal opportunity employer...
Similarly, apartheid has almost disappeared from sports and from the job market. Because of the need for skilled workers, the exclusion of blacks from certain jobs in private industry has largely ended. Black unions have been legalized. Most, though not all, companies have a policy of equal pay for equal work. However, what is true in cities like Johannesburg is not necessarily true in more conservative areas. Petty apartheid still flourishes in the rural bastions of the Afrikaners and in the English redoubts around Durban, where rules governing whites-only beaches remain intact...
...flummoxed by Zoya Zarubina, a member of the Soviet Women's Committee. She snorted derisively at his questions about the general exclusion of women from high Soviet office and in imperious, almost unaccented English contended that Soviet women are more likely than U.S. women to receive equal pay for equal work...
President Reagan not only advocates school prayer, he calls those who oppose him intolerant. One might argue with equal plausibility that on this issue his opponents are more tolerant: after all, a cardinal principle of toleration is thai Ihe practice of religion should be free and uncoerced, a situation that hardly obtains in the third grade. Many who oppose school prayer support a moment of silence as a serious, denominationally neutral alternative. Is William Rusher, the outspoken conservative publisher of National Review, intolerant of religion because he supports a moment of silence? By questioning the religious, indeed the constitutional, bona...