Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Communism; 32 per cent of the blacks, however, and 54 per cent of the whites agreed that the conflict is. More than 40 per cent of the blacks and nearly 20 per cent of the whites believe that America should not be fighting in what is essentially a civil war or Asian problem. About 14 per cent of the blacks and 21 per cent of the whites believe that the American presence is needed to build democracy in South Vietnam...
...office. The discouraging precedent of that initial summit has been echoed virtually every time Arab leaders have gathered to wrestle with the Palestinian problem. The meeting called in Cairo last week by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser was no better-and perhaps worse. The savage civil strife in Jordan polarized Arab leaders as never before. Not once, in fact, were delegates from all of the ten Arab states represented in Cairo able to sit down together, underscoring the Arabs' difficulty in papering over their disagreements and presenting even a facade of unity...
...Line. The National Air Quality Standards Act has the legal clout to back up its stiff requirements. It calls for civil penalties of up to $10,000 a day in fines, plus criminal penalties of up to $25,000 a day and two years' imprisonment. While the strictures apply to all polluters, the biggest bite will be taken out of heavy industry...
...case of Mrs. Ida Phillips, who was denied an assembly-line job at a Martin Marietta Corp. plant in Florida because she was the mother of preschool children. Mrs. Phillips and the Justice Department, in a friend-of-the-court brief, contend that the company violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination against women in employment. In addition, the court will be asked to decide whether the First Amendment wall separating church and state was breached by a recently passed Pennsylvania statute providing state aid for nonpublic school instruction...
...amid their elaborate furniture, radiating a wistful chic; as image maker, Curtis is more elegant than challenging. His objects do not confront one another in shock, like Lautréamont's famous sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table-they nod, as it were, with mild and civil assent, a little surprised to find each other surviving in Arizona. Survival, in fact, is the keynote of such art. In the end, even the nostalgia of Philip Curtis' vision serves its purpose, which is to beguile the viewer into meditating on time and its erosions...