Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Civil Rights. The burden of the civil rights fight falls more on the presidency than Congress. "The next President must exert the great moral and educational force of his office to help bring equal access to public facilities, from churches to lunch counters, and to support the right of every American to stand up for his rights, even if on occasion he must sit down for them. For only the President, not the Senate and not the House and not the Supreme Court, can create the understanding and tolerance necessary as the spokesman for all the American people...
Constant Energy. By the time the tour was finished, the girls had handled integrated tea party or segregated breakfast with equal aplomb. They had spoken their piece for people who distrusted Catholics ("The Catholic Church," said Eunice, "does not influence Jack in any way except a religious way"), people who were worried about the oil-depletion allowance, who resented Lyndon Johnson's second place on the ticket. Their energy was a source of constant consternation to everyone who tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls...
...double bill with The Zoo Story, wherein Playwright Edward Albee creates a critical mass by clanging together a beat with a square; A Country Scandal, an early play of Anton Chekhov, produced professionally in the U.S. for the first time, providing ample and comic proof that minor Chekhov is equal to the major efforts of most others; and Little Mary Sunshine, off-Broadway's phenomenal, sellout musical that spoofs the candy-coated operettas...
...Merry Two-Step." Long before the 19th Amendment, women ran regularly, if fruitlessly, for high public office. Belva Bennett Lockwood, the first woman lawyer to be admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, was twice the presidential candidate of the Equal Rights Party (1884 and 1888); Mrs. Stanton stood for Congress in 1866, received a discouraging 24 votes. The first woman to win a national office was Montana's Republican Representative Jeanette Rankin, who took her seat four years before the 19th Amendment was passed. Crowed an elated suffragette: "Jeanette is the best stump speaker in Montana...
...Equal to What. Doyennes of Congress in 1960 are Massachusetts' Edith Nourse Rogers, descendant of a Salem witch, who has served 35 years in the House, a record surpassed by no other woman and only nine men; and Ohio's Frances Bolton, a wealthy Clevelander, expert on African affairs (the pages call her "the African Queen"), a yoga devotee (she stands on her head every day) and an anti-feminist ("I'm not particularly anxious to be equal to a lot of things men think are so important"). Gracie Pfost, a freckle-faced Congresswoman from Idaho, represents...