Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).* Arthur Schnitzler's romantic comedy, Anatol, is made up of three amorous episodes in the life of a dashing 19th-century Viennese boulevardier...
...displaying an unnerving self-confidence in their own ability to do anything, an attitude that seems alien to the old academic virtue of modest contemplation at the foot of the savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very few heroes these days...
...following is a letter from William F. Brazziel, director of General Education at Virginia State College, Norfolk, Va. It was written to the Harvard Education Review in reply to an article by Arthur A. Jensen stating that genetic differences between blacks and whites are the chief cause of the gap between white and black IQs as measured by traditional intelligence tests...
Last week, a scant five days after Arthur Jensen made headlines in Virginia papers regarding inferiority of black people as measured by IQ tests, defense attorneys and their expert witnesses fought a suit in Federal District Court to integrate Greensville and Caroline County schools...
...schools on the basis of standardized tests. Those who failed to make a certain score would be assigned to all black remedial schools where "teachers who understood them could work with them." The defense in this case quoted heavily from the theories of white intellectual supremacy as expounded by Arthur Jensen...