Word: belled
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Says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell: "We know from many sociological studies that large disparities of income and status are accepted as fair if individuals feel that it is the will of God or justly earned, while small differences, if arbitrary, will often seem unfair. Orderlies in a hospital compare their income with that of a nurse, but not that of a doctor." Most Americans live by equality of category and are content to move with it-the going wage scale, the union member's seniority, the soldier's promotion in rank and the civil servant's slow...
Sociologist Bell considers this "principle of redress," as Rawls calls it, to be "the central value problem" of contemporary society. How much redress? And at what cost to other groups in the society? Just how agonizing these questions can be is seen in the ongoing debate about quotas and compensatory efforts. Where liberals like Bell once opposed discrimination because of "its denial of a justly earned place to a person on the basis of an unjust group attitude," now a different proposition is being argued. Merely being disadvantaged-by being black or female or young or Indian or whatever-entitles...
Allen might win his fight. But his resistance is unusual, and his success would do little to halt what he calls the "bell-shaped curve mentality" of grading and its approach to education. He sees the program of retrenchment at Boston State and at other State colleges as an indication of that mentality's increasingly victorious "attack on liberal arts education for the lower classes...
...gymnasium. He lifts a 100-lb. weight over his head as many as 80 times a day, then spends as much as an hour standing between parallel bars. "With the help of a walker I can go 150 steps," he told TIME'S Atlanta bureau chief James Bell. "The doctors tell me I'm in excellent shape now except for the paralysis of the legs." His wife Cornelia, 35, likes to goad him by saying that she will make his next speech for him if he is too tired...
...wrestling match between two men and observe the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city." 369's production takes this prediction literally, using a boxing ring instead of a stage, calling the scenes "rounds" and ending each with a bell, and having a ring announcer (who seems more like a circus ringmaster) read the introductory phrases that Brecht wanted shouted like newspaper headlines. Subtlety--never the strongest point of a Brecht play--is thereby eliminated. Brecht added the boxing and wrestling allusions to strengthen the play five years after...