Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...spiritual heiresses of Abigail Adams are rising in the rebellion she predicted. To men-and a great many women-the onset of the new women's movement seems startlingly abrupt. In many ways, however, the new feminism is developing along the lines of the civil rights movement. A young, assertive Women's Liberation Movement has brought new publicity and fire to the older, more genteel crusade, bewildering and sometimes outraging men in the way that black radicals infuriate and frighten whites...
Unnecessary Protection. In some ways, the amendment might be redundant-but then, women activists are in favor of all the redundancy they can get. The 14th Amendment already guarantees equal rights to "all persons." In addition, the 1964 Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination by sex as well as race in hiring. Thus, say opponents, there is no need for the amendment. Mrs. Griffiths counters: "Of course there would be no need for it, if the Supreme Court would do what it ought to do. But in 1938, for example, the court forced the admission of a Negro to the University...
...pessimism" often ascribed to Bergman. Shame initiated his latest phase as a director, in which he made obvious his disinterest in all values and means of transcendence due to the frailty of human substance beside the brutality that dominates modern life. he never identifies the political factions in the civil war in Shame, for they are all the same, their line: violence. There can be no salvation, either, not even for artists like Jan Rosenberg and his wife, who are reduced to beasts by the end of the film, no longer higher beings worthy of spiritual appraisal, but interesting only...
Married. Albert Finney, 34, British film actor (Scrooge); and Anouk Aimée, 38, French actress (A Man and a Woman); he for the second time, she for the fourth; in a civil ceremony; in London...
...Government aimed at 1,000 more construction jobs for blacks, but Philadelphia contractors so far this year have hired and trained only 60. The greatest barrier appears to be a legal one. Opponents of the plan are testing it in the courts, ironically arguing that it violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial quotas in hiring. A federal district court in Philadelphia recently ruled that the plan's goals do not amount to illegal quotas; the decision is being appealed. Until the legal uncertainties are resolved, contractors and Government agencies are unlikely to pay much attention...