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The entire "middle-class culture" argument, like most pro-busing theories, is intolerably humiliating and condescending to minorities and implicitly racist. It seems to say that poor black kids need to be exposed to neat bright white kids bursting with learning ability. But given good schools and teachers, there is...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: The Failure of Busing | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

Only once during the fight, for eight glorious seconds, did these Elysian hopes near fulfillment. Catching the 33-year-old Ali off balance, the 225-lb. Wepner sent a solid blow to the ribs that dumped the champ on his rump. Until then, a condescending Ali had dominated the contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Stitches | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

Sharing the same community with your university, and having just had an extremely unsatisfying experience at one of its lectures. I feel some need and some responsibility to communicate my experience. A friend told me of a lecture on sex and communication to be presented at Harvard, March 12, at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEX AND GREIF | 3/15/1975 | See Source »

It is past time we ceased to apologize for an imperfect democracy. Find its equal. It is time we grew out of our initial-not a little condescending-supersensitivity about the feelings of new nations.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Loyal Opposition | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Jim's future is uncertain because the depth of his talent is deliberately unspecified. He is also, in the best traditions of working-class heroes, a bit of a bastard. That'll Be the Day (the title comes from a great old Buddy Holly tune) has also learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star is Born | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

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