Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herrnstein is engaged in a bit of sleight-of-hand, in which he over and over again tried to dazzle us with that shining crystal "fact" of "high heritability of I.Q.," hypnotizing us into accepting his argument. I want, briefly, to break the spell by showing that the "high heritability of I.Q.," is a non-fact, at least in the context of discussion of social class, and that indeed such phrases as "I.Q.'s substantial heritability" or "the heritability of I.Q. is 80 per cent," despite their appearance as English, are actually scientifically meaningless garbage which have not been refuted...
From Woking to Newcastle-and in hundreds of working and middle-class towns in between-English housewives were planning tea parties and lunches around the telly. Limousines were parked in front of smart stores throughout London's West End, while their owners shopped for silver trays and crystal decanters. Throughout the kingdom, pensioners were wrapping handmade doilies and dainty little handkerchiefs monogrammed "A" and "M." At Buckingham Palace a special office was set up to inspect and display the vast piles of gifts. The occasion: this week's wedding in Westminster Abbey of Princess Anne, 23, and Captain...
...life. "I need company," she says. "Not many at a time, though. Three or four, or half a dozen at most. Nowadays, two tables of ten represent a real gala." In the duke's day it was nothing for 40 to sit down to crested linen and crystal, to incomparable wine and food. "We usually had music. The duke loved to dance and to take a turn at the drums. But I don't dance any more, nor do my friends. We've suddenly become...
...Four Corners area, the residents of that desert region are talking mostly about the effect the power plant is having on the once beautiful vistas that the crystal clear air afforded. In rural Arkansas, residents are talking about the effect which the power plant is going to have on their economic livelihood. Rural Arkansas is cotton and soybean country, and scientific studies have long ago demonstrated the susceptibility of cotton and beans to damage by extremely low levels of sulfur dioxide in the air. The farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou don't want to see their means...
Meanwhile, Columbus was back, after a fashion, in the New World. Two small crystal lockets containing some of the dust from his Spanish grave were up for auction at Manhattan's Sotheby Parke-Bernet. The pair is expected to bring...