Word: weal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLAUSE on sex discrimination which started University headaches. In 1970, Bernice Sandler, then president of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a nationwide women's group, discovered that, under the executive order, women could file complaints of discrimination against Universities--and that the department of Health, Education and Welfare was obliged to investigate the charge. If HEW found "substantial or material violation" of the provisions in the executive order, the university faced loss of Federal funds...
Under the order, WEAL and other women's groups have filed more than 150 formal charges of sex discrimination since January, 1970. Of more than 200 complaints filed against colleges and universities between January, 1970 and January, 1972, HEW received more charges of sex discrimination than of discrimination against all minorities put together. Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office of Civil Rights, claimed in a letter in January to a women from the National Organization for Women (NOW), that his office had a backlog of more than 100 cases. "Given the limits of our human power" he admitted some cases...
...opinionation. A review of Persona is remarkably evasive, a Bergman beatification with nothing but gratitude to show for itself. Attacking film violence, he hits some home truths about its brutal, de-personalizing necessities, but is too general and removed from specific detail to be persuasive. One of his Common weal theater pieces is, in fact, a conscious (and hilarious) demonstration of how unexamined criticism comes to be written when the drama considered is flaccid...
...national convention of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), meeting in Washington today, also denounced the formation of the committee. Petitions calling for the committee's dissolution were circulated at the convention and will be presented next week to Logan Wilson, president of the American Council on Education and the man who appointed the committee
...Kennedys customarily allows. His book also considers the latter-day liberal's ambiguous feelings about the use of power. Once things seemed simple: you elected good guys like F.D.R. and H.S.T., shouted "All power to the President!" and depended on the Executive Branch to protect the public weal. But by the '60s, the illusion of simplicity was fading. Looking back on that period, sophisticated observers like Navasky realize how easy it is for even well-intentioned leaders to abuse executive power in some cases and abdicate it in others. Since all power is compromised, how to reduce...