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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues, i.e., (1) whether intelligence is hereditary and (2) whether if such is the case, the additional evidence of differential performance on intelligence tests justifies the further conclusion that there exists an hereditary difference in average intelligence between racial groups. Your responses deal very largely with (1) and you chide me for not accepting what you say, is the proven fact of heredity, including. I take it, not only that inheritance is a significant variable in explaining intelligence but that it has overriding explanatory power. My purpose is not to debate this, as it is not the crucial point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musgrave-Herrnstein Letters | 1/20/1972 | See Source »

...While Boston is registering all students and even supplying 100 registrars to do it, Cambridge won't even add one extra registrar," said Rossi. "It'll make a pretty fitting contrast to have students turned away here, while in Boston everyone registers while politicians chide students for not joining the system...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Ackerman, at a Candidates Meeting, Urges City to Let Students Register | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

When liberals chide him for joining a conservative Republican Administration, he retorts that too many of them have lost their way in contemporary America. They have, he believes, substituted moral fervor for political analysis. Many have "a frenzied attachment to the apocalypse," he says. "They see society in ahistorical terms: what is not altogether acceptable is altogether unacceptable; gradations are ignored and incremental movements are scorned." Many contemporary liberals, he says, have become arrogant and isolated from the rest of society because of their affluence. Today's liberal is "a well-educated middle-class person with an immense feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Whig in the White House: Daniel P. Moynihan | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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