Word: crude
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...would be nice to think of civilization as a long process by which such crude genetic determinism (the bigger guy wins) is replaced with finer and fairer values. But genes are barely less important today. There is, of course, the sensitive issue of intelligence. Many people think of the SAT as a genetic marker every bit as clinical as that contained in a syringe of blood. The folks who believe this are mistaken. But even the politically correct position--that "intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities...
...most battles, disarray in the enemy ranks is a cause for celebration. President Clinton and his legal team should have been exultant last week when the attorneys for Paula Corbin Jones, who is suing the President for allegedly making a crude sexual advance in an Arkansas hotel room six years ago, abruptly withdrew from the case, citing "fundamental differences" with their client. The lawyers, Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert Davis, had been representing Jones for three years, so their sudden exit just eight months before the scheduled trial seemed to suggest that all the steam had gone out of her case...
...offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card for him to send to friends and colleagues. The result was The Spirit of Christmas, an animated short film that centered on four crude-acting, blob-shaped third-grade boys forced to intervene in a nasty fistfight between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. The tape was a smash, passed around and copied endlessly in media circles in Los Angeles and New York City...
...those sources peddled to a supermarket tabloid a stock photo of Willey with the President at a reception. Even Clinton was accused of being "evasive" when he declined comment at a press conference. We are at the point where we believe a woman who says the President made a crude sexual advance, but we don't believe a woman who says he did no such thing...
Although millions of us were born between 1965 and '77, please remember that millions of us reject the rude, crude and morally vacuous "values" your interviewers chose to use as examples of Generation X. Like our parents and grandparents, we know that only honest, hardworking and morally upright individuals can truly influence this nation in the right direction. Your incessant make-believe reporting has convinced many that these timeless virtues aren't relevant in today's world. Wrong again. CHARLES AKERS Caracas...