Word: turnabout
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...ingenious historical allegory. The controversy is the race question, and the allegory supposes that millions of white Americans are forced to experience what millions of black Americans have experienced during the last two centuries. The reader is invited to see how the whites like it and to conclude that turnabout is unfair play...
...another issue the A.M.A. did an extraordinary turnabout last week. Having taken a studiously neutral position on birth control for more than 25 years, it decided that "the prescription of child-spacing measures should be made available to all who require them, consistent with their creed and mores." Having jealously opposed any intrusion into the doctor's domain or infringement of his right to collect fees in the Depression 1930s, the A.M.A. now decided that birth-control guidance should be equally available to private and clinic patients, regardless of whether they "obtain their medical care through private physicians...
...Turnabout is fair play, decided bearded New Orleans Jazzman Al Hint, 41. He had cut a disk with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, so this time it was Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 69, guesting it high on the revolving stage of Hirt's Bourbon Street hangout. "Where are the other 90 musicians?" Fiedler began, raising his baton, whereupon the six-man combo beat him to the beat by hurtling into Trumpeter's Lullaby. "We only have one rule," Al explained kindly. "The one who finishes first gets to play the ending." Since Fiedler had never really started...
...Time. Black responded so magnificently to his new job that today he is no more welcome in racist Alabama than he would ever have been in fiery Salem. The Court responded so adroitly to F.D.R.'s packing threat that it began upholding New Deal legislation in a turnabout that cynics called "a switch in time that saved nine." Ever since, its judicial concern has been focused not so much on property rights as on human rights...
...only turnabout made fair plays, the coming Broadway season would be a sizable cut above its predecessors. Reversing the East-West brain drain in a migration unprecedented since movies broke the sound barrier, Hollywood writers and composers have turned out so many plays and musicals this year that they threaten to outnumber old Broadway hands in the coming 1964-65 playbills...