Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...were heralded by proponents as the inescapable wave of the future and by doomsayers as the ominous forerunner of 1984. The voters issued different ratings. On balance, the Almighty Tube gave and it took away: of 26 clients in statewide races managed by media experts, 13 won and an equal number lost. Television was undeniably effective in primary campaigns where virtually unknown opponents vied for voter recognition...
...successfully, however, the success would be only political and short-run. The long-run effect would be to perpetuate the divisions and the animosities that trouble our country's life. I know that the vast majority in both parties are opposed to violence and disruption with equal firmness. Sowing suspicion, fanning fear and inflaming hatreds are not acceptable substitutes for the art of persuasion...
...Four agreed that West Germany, East Germany and the West Berlin Senate should work out an agreement on the first two issues. But this contains the seeds of a troublesome problem. If West Berlin is treated as a separate and equal partner in negotiating the first two points, Bonn's argument that the city is a part of the federal republic will be undermined. That would reinforce the Soviet contention that West Germany should not be allowed to represent West Berlin diplomatically throughout the Western world as it now does, but that the city should have its own foreign...
...recognize the Peking government does not mean that we approve of what it is doing." In some instances, however, governments withhold recognition from a country because it endangers the peace or harasses its neighbors. Many African nations refuse to recognize South Africa because it denies equal rights to blacks and mixed-blood "coloreds." At the same time, many of them do not protest Peking's use of terror against its citizens. The U.S., which recognizes South Africa but not Peking, is often accused of maintaining precisely the opposite double standard. Because of such moral v. practical dilemmas, most nations...
...Stade's letter, he formulates the question of admissions and merger as a conflict between the right of men to a Harvard education and the right of women to receive this education. The struggle of women for equal recognition involves this basic right. But von Stade speaks of the "balance of males versus females" at Harvard, and of including women "at the expense of males." He seems to see education as inherently the property and privilege of males, a sanctuary that can be invaded by women only at men's peril. Just as Harvard's supposed institutional neutrality breaks down...