Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then divided into five regional jurisdictions, each almost entirely white, and one so-called Central Jurisdiction overlapping them all, and exclusively Negro. But this segregation brought some advantages for Negro Methodists in terms of representation and influence in the church. The Central Jurisdiction elects its own bishops and has equal representation on national councils. Thus Negroes cut far more Methodist ice than would otherwise be the case; there are four Negro Methodist bishops in the Central Jurisdiction, for instance, while the theoretically nonsegregated Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. has none at all in the continental...
...Tuskegee, Ala., birthplace of Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes), the Macon Theater had the last word in separate but equal cinema. The separate ticket offices, separate entrances, and separate concessions were old as midnight popcorn, but there was an added feature: a ceiling-to-floor partition, running down the middle of the auditorium. There were 324 seats on the white side and 336 seats on the colored side. Up front: two separate but equal silver screens...
...with such an extraordinarily successful Isolde, the Met lacks a competent Tristan. Because the opera requires a Tristan who is in every way equal to her, especially when the Irish bride is so commandingly portrayed, the Met's production does not satisfy entirely. Though Ramon Vinay and Karl Liebl are seasoned, intelligent performers, neither has the considerable vocal resources or discipline requisite for the taxing part. When Melchior left the Metropolitan's stage in 1949, there was no Heldentenor to replace him. By that time, Set Svanhom, his beautiful voice always a bit too lyric for the heaviest Wagnerian tenor...
...backing of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, was made chairman of a committee that set out to sell a cleanup program, shocked regional audiences and newspaper readers with crude, graphic facts. One quart in every gallon of Ohio water was raw sewage, equal to "700 dead horses floating by Cincinnati every day," he said. "We in Cincinnati can always tell when people in Pittsburgh have had asparagus for dinner...
...John Hersey's The War Lover, a well-meant attack on war and warriors by a serious writer whose work in this book is not equal to the demands of his sermon...