Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motivation" criterion might tend to favor students strongly opposed to the war, Inkeles acknowledged, but added "we hope for some diversity of viewpoint." A student "gets points not for his opinions, but for his skill as a social scientist," he added...
...Young Dems and the NAACP, on the other hand, stand an excellent chance of setting up a formidable delegation. It is probable that a number of powerful industrialists and Delta planters who favor President Johnson will lend their support to a challenge...
...distrusted the dour pragmatism of Boumediene, 42, who methodically dismantled the chaotic collective farms and factories set up by Ben Bella in favor of a system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...
...less well on the S.A.T.s, College Board Official W. H. Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact that college instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should not be considered an evil in itself. "If facility with the English language is necessary for success in our society," he says, "then a test...
...level far transcending the dramatic material. From this specialized, perhaps perverse, point-of-view, Hurry Sundown is close to Preminger's best film.