Word: redressed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Blind casting is a relative ideal; it is a corrective measure. To pretend that the bias that infused drama did not infuse society is at best idiotic and at worst malicious. We cross-cast now to redress certain cultural greivances, but we should never forget how grave those greivances are. If a director casts an Asian-American as a Prince Hamlet, that still does not soothe the stinging reality that the West never did, indeed, never could, envision an Asian protagonist. Because so many roles are scripted for the social majority as acknowledged by our culture, roles scripted for Asian...
...write to you now seeking not redress for the injuries done me, for my life as a brass player and friend of children has been shattered beyond repair, but rather to protect future tubists from wrongful harm at your hands. David Dobson '91 Tubist Harvard University Band...
Culminating decades of lobbying by Japanese-Americans to redress the pain and blot caused by the unjustified imprisonments, the bittersweet event commenced a race against time to reimburse, over the next three years, the 65,000 victims who remain alive. The $1.25 billion Civil Liberties Act of 1988, funded by Congress only this year, authorizes a $20,000 payment to every man, woman and child who suffered as a result of the internment policy and was still alive at the time the law was passed...
...complaint process is the only means of redress a student has when a firm makes racist remarks," said Nyria Melchor, a second year law student...
What is needed at this tragic juncture is not short-sighted sectarianism, but rather the unity and moral courage to redress injustice. It is tragic that even the Arab students at Harvard have fallen victim to compromising their sense of justice. It is time for all Arabs to recliam their sense of dignity, to uphld their common morality, by acting together to oppose aggression and liberate Kuwait...