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...states continue working out a series of new constitutions, they seem to hold widely differing views on a fundamental question: Who shall vote? Most states restrict the franchise to adult white males, but North Carolina permits Negro freeholders to vote, and New Jersey does not specifically ban women (although no women have actually voted there). Maryland excludes all "Papists," the original settlers, who are now only 8 percent of the population, while New York also has passed a resolution to bar Jews (a tiny group numbering only about 250). Among the most important restrictions are the property requirements that exist...
When Gluck's opera was originally published in Vienna in 1769, he wrote a preface outlining his plan to overcome "the mistaken vanity of singers." his alternative: "I have striven to restrict music to its true office of serving poetry by means of expression and by following the situations of the story, without interrupting the action or stifling it with a useless superfluity of ornaments." Although Italian prima donnas pay little attention to their words, Gluck heaped praises on the "heartfelt language" of his librettist, Ranieri Calzabigi, who also collaborated on Gluck's first big success, Orfeo...
...consumer almost always ends up paying the bills (including the one-third of the judgment that frequently goes to the plaintiffs attorney). Action is now being considered to set limits on what plaintiffs can receive. In Texas, for example, a state committee is working on proposed legislation that would restrict awards for pain and suffering...
...first place by helping to confine them to segregated housing within Chicago's city limits. The housing plan, said the Justices, should have included the entire Chicago metropolitan area instead of just the city. Ordering HUD to put low-cost housing in the suburbs would not restrict the freedom of local governments, the court ruled further, since the suburbs would still be able to exercise all their powers regarding zoning requirements and other land-use restrictions...
...voted unanimously to require all high school students in the state to pass a ninth-grade reading and mathematics examination in order to graduate. Several of the regents hailed the new standard as a "giant leap forward." After all, the New York City board of higher education, seeking to restrict the "open admissions" policy of the City University of New York, decided last December to impose an even less taxing standard on college entrants: an eighth-grade reading level in English...