Word: claiming
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Some academicians, like Arthur Jensen, William Shockley, and Richard Herrnstein, say racial differences in I.Q. test scores show that black people may be genetically inferior to whites. The evidence that has been advanced to support this claim is entirely worthless. Jensen himself, in a recent article in Behavior Genetics (April, 1974) has conceded that the basic data gathered years ago by Cyril Burt--the evidence Jensen himself used to prove his hereditarian theories--is spurious. Furthermore, the I.Q. test themselves are notoriously biased against black people...
Another group, including former Harvard professors Daniel P. Moynihan and Edward Banfield, claim that black children are unable to learn because of their allegedly inferior culture. Through the process William Ryan has aptly characterized as "blaming the victim," these men would have us believe that if many black people live in slums it must be because they like it there--not because they can't get housing elsewhere. Their "culture of poverty" notions do not point to the main sources of poverty in America: racism, unemployment, and lack of money to buy decent health care, decent homes, decent services...
...feel the same way about the bands and juke box at Charlie's Place, at 1 Bow St. Charlie's serves not particularly good drinks, expensive beer, and is a hangout for local high school kids. I know some people who drink there in the morning and claim it is not too bad before Cambridge High and Latin lets out classes in the afternoon. It also has the reputation of being good for golden oldies and that kind of thing. I think it is too noisy to talk and too expensive to drink, so I'm not real high...
Danehy had campaigned for the mayor's office, arguing that he was next in line for the post. Sullivan and Vellucci were the last independent mayors. Councilors Clinton and Russell lacked enough council experience to claim the office, Danehy said in January...
...movies were only an escape--as the old claim went--then when people in Cambridge retreated from political activism they should have gone to the movies more. But the reverse is true, and true because almost without exception the best movies stem from a realistic base that may be transformed, fantasized, or abstracted--they weep in one eye, they may cry in the other, but they are grounded in reality. The Welles's Larry Jackson thinks that the Nixon administration hurt people's interest in good films just as he thinks it crushed the student movement "just after the first...