Word: equalized
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...There seems to be a lot of confusion in the History Department about the criteria and procedures and that is surely something that could be remedied,' Phyllis Keller, associate dean of the Faculty for academic planning and equal employment opportunity officer, said yesterday...
Douglas had a way of cutting straight through legalisms to tackle practical problems. In decisions like those in the desegregation and one-man, one-vote cases, Douglas and other liberal activists on the Warren court discarded limiting precedents and gave real meaning to the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment. "He did not write for the law school professors," remarked one of his admiring clerks; law professors, in fact, scolded him for sloppiness and sometimes for indifference to law in drafting his opinions. Douglas was also criticized by his own colleague Justice Felix Frankfurter for disregarding...
...Grain exports are measured in metric tons, equal to about 2,205 Ibs. A metric ton of soybeans contains about 37 bu., of wheat about 37 bu., of corn about...
Mozart: The Six Viola Quintets (Juilliard Quartet with John Graham, second viola, Columbia; 3 LPs). The best complete set of these masterpieces since the recording by the Budapest Quartet with Walter Trampler. The playing is supple and urgent, fully equal to the symphonic sweep of the great C major quintet as well as the tragic stoicism of the G minor. What it sometimes misses is the mystery of Mozart's luminous, godlike simplicity. But then that is the quality in Mozart that Artur Schnabel described as "too easy for children and too difficult for artists...
...tragic hints in the work are systematically underplayed; the elegant comic surface remains unbroken. Colin Davis' 1974 recording, with its darker moods and more muscular texture, still provides a compelling alternative reading. But the splendid cast and Solti's conducting make this set at least the equal of any now available...