Word: originality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs where discrimination is practiced. Russell calls this the "genocide clause," insists that it would kill off "a large section of the country"-namely, the Deep South. The other is Title VII, empowering a Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin or sex (the latter thanks to an amendment offered by House Democrat Howard Smith, more in the spirit of obstruction than of chivalry). Russell contends that the commission would discriminate against what he calls "the average garden variety of American...
...cure such ignorance, yet avoid charges of proselytizing, Warshaw developed a reading course, drawn from the King James Version, that stresses literary influence rather than theological interpretation. His students soon found a new dimension in Moby Dick's Ishmael or Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, learned the origin of a doubting Thomas, a Jonah or a Judas, and got the point of Handel's Messiah or Harry Belafonte's rocking Noah. On new tests, Warshaw's pupils pushed their grades to high levels, and a couple of students named Cohen and O'Connell got perfect...
...Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a pioneer transplant center.* With Wilson's help, a supply of Imuran, an anti-rejection drug, was flown to Guayaquil. Luna was given a dose of X rays to further halt the process by which the human body normally rejects foreign organisms, whatever their origin...
...wives and one long-suffering mistress. Only one son, Robert, survived to become a doctor, and his lackluster career was a persistent disappointment to his father. But Robert became the father of Charles and Charles made the family name famous. When he advanced his theory of evolution in Origin of the Species, Charles relied partially on his grandfather's investigation of gene mutations described in the treatise Zoonomia...
...desegregate schools and publicly owned, operated or managed facilities such as parks, libraries and swimming pools. He also is empowered to intervene in suits filed by individuals who charge that they have been denied the constitutional right of equal protection of law because of race, color, religion or national origin...