Word: equal
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...Klan banner, surrounded by hoods (literal use), he launches into his speech. Starting slowly, he declares, "I'm a segregationist, and I will die a segregationist." Warming to his task, this former electrical contractor explains that mixing the races will never work because "you cannot make unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public policy. His program includes the shooting of Cuban refugees in the water, voting for Ronald Reagan, and putting pressure on President Carter to refer to Blacks as "niggers...
Conservative Challenger Alfonse D'Amato, 43, the presiding supervisor of Hempstead Township (pop. 800,000), attacked Javits for supporting SALT II, the Equal Rights Amendment and Government-paid abortions. With questionable taste, D'Amato also made issues out of his opponent's age and health. Javits admitted that he suffers from motor neuron disease, which is slowly withering his muscles. One D'Amato commercial showed a wrinkled Javits poster slowly falling to the ground as an announcer intoned: "And now, at age 76 and in failing health, he wants another six years...
...four-term Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman of Brooklyn. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Holtzman, 39, impressed constituents as a tough-questioning member of the House Judiciary Committee during its 1974 impeachment hearings on Richard Nixon. She was the principal sponsor of the three-year extension for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. She backed efforts to expel Nazi war criminals from the U.S. and helped expose the fraud in a New York City summer food program that led to 17 convictions...
JIMMY CARTER'S presidency has enshrined a law of contemporary politics that seemingly governs those who govern: For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision. Not that he bears sole responsibility--he is at once a product and an extension of the politics fashioned by the media and the polls. He cannot automatically be condemned for conducting his presidency like a campaign and his campaign like a president. More dangerous are the roots of his present posture, a stance much different from that of four years ago, when he rode a wave of superficial optimism into office. Carter...
...women, Cherry Jones's Rosalind clearly deserves her position as Shakespeare's ringmaster. The most commanding of the performers, she plays woman or man with equal ardor, courtly fixture or cottager with equal ease. Karen MacDonald's Celia matches Jones movement for movement with a perfectly synchronized body and a beautifully tuned voice. But the most ingratiating of the performances is Gerry Bamman's Jaques, a tall forest roamer in a grass toga, unfazed by even the most outrageous of Belgrader's devices, with a pouting, resonant voice that undoubtedly reminded more than one member of the audience of Tony...