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...genetics. The crucial point is that propositions about inherited intelligence (applicable to individuals within all groups) are one thing, while conclusions about differentials in average intelligence among racial groups are quite another. The latter do not follow from the former, yet it is easy to slip into the error that they do. Professor Herrnstein does not explicitly draw the second conclusion, and there is even a small sentence disclaiming it. Yet the whole setting of the article including its slanted editorial introduction leaves an overall impression that such a conclusion is suggested...
Yankee Enginuity. Their basic failure is not choice of subject but lack of talent, and the error of putting message before magic. Anyone considering the folly of seeking topicality in children's books might ponder the evolution of one railroad theme in books for toddlers. The literary genre began with The Little Engine That Could (Platt & Munk; 1930), an Establishment epic in which a coal-burning hero learned to serve the military-industrial complex by applying Yankee enginuity ("I think I can, I think I can ... I know I can, I know I can . . ."). Then came Tootle (Golden Press...
...should. It was a typographical error...
...accept the necessity for freedom of expression, it follows that in an intellectual controversy any attempt to coerce rather than to persuade--to make a person regret having expressed an opinion without convincing him of the error of the opinion itself--is not merely an offense against the person so coerced, but an erosion of the mechanics which make free expression work and therefore make it possible...
...spokesman, John Burke, told the Crimson yesterday that he refused to discuss the allegations of the pamphlet because "the facts were in error. It's all past now--they have already done what damage they have done...