Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked behind you, at the people gathered to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education--the epoch-making decision that outlawed "separate but equal" public services and that would help fuel the Civil-Rights movement of the 60s--you remembered where you were quite suddenly. This was Boston. And this polite company was a group of battle-scarred activists who have once again taken up the fight against racism, this time chasing the disease to where it now lies--in the subtleties and nuances of Northern discrimination. Said one chagrinned former Black undergraduate...
Grouse though they did about the G.I.s being "overpaid, oversexed and over here," most Britons found the Americans to be warmhearted and valiant Allies. Thousands of English families opened their homes to American servicemen, who responded with equal generosity. Glen Brimblecombe of Ilsington in Devon recalls that as a child "I wanted a bicycle for Christmas. Very selfish, I know now, for Mum could not afford it. Mac, an American sailor from Stover Camp, whom I can still remember, appeared on Christmas morning with a brand-new Elswick bicycle...
...been abridged. The Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 3, that it had not been. The court found that the ordinance was narrowly tailored to meet Los Angeles' legitimate and significant goal of protecting the city's aesthetics. The First Amendment was not violated, because the ban applied equally to everyone and Vincent's backers could have advertised their candidate's virtues elsewhere and in other ways. To a disappointed Vincent, who lost the election as well as the decision, the court's belief in the ban's equal impact seemed to consider rich...
What will it take for him to make it? "A lot of hard work and a couple of breaks," Azelby said. "The decision's not in my hands." But he thinks he's on an equal footing with the tens of hopefuls, from top picks to free agents, looking for a chance. "Whether you're 10th round or first round, you've still got to make the team...
Dworkin and MacKinnon couch their discussion in terms of establishing equality between the sexes, but their real complaint is that women don't receive equal respect. Pornography is a double insult; it denigrates women and has fun doing it. But turning to the law to endorse a stiff-necked Victorian worship of womanhood's worth is hardly an answer. It implies that there is a moral right to extract respect from the disrespectful. A widespread perception of feminine inferiority infringes on the real equality of the sexes, but this perception must be changed by conversion, not coercion...