Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busing is most likely to be accomplished peacefully when 1) the number of nonwhites in each school is less than 40%; 2) students are not bused to schools that are inferior to the ones that they previously attended; 3) schools are near enough so that the parents of the bused students can easily stay involved in them; 4) most parents, educators and city officials are committed to preventing disturbances; and 5) black-white advisory groups are formed to defuse problems in advance...
...recognizable reality has accidentally made its way into Tarden's nightmarish, monomaniacal descriptions of torture and death. There is no question but that Kosinski is a fiction writer of considerable craft, as well as imagination. These few breaths of conventionality--one person saying that women make Tarden feel inferior, another simply that he has bony features--show the limitations of Tarden's vision, and simultaneously cast doubt...
...Sometimes you hear stories, can infer this from his family circumstances or tell if he's at a manifestly inferior university," Mansfield said, noting that in most cases, "some members of the department know him quite well already...
Though the discussion is supposed to center on issues of scholarship, Mansfield said he feels that confidentiality of the meetings is necessary to insure candor by the participants. "Academics are good at telling someone their faults when they are inferior or in print," he said, "but on a face-to-face basis they tend to get either very angry or very inarticulate, and I think you could see this...
...schools of Detroit and Boston [Sept. 1] were examined in court, far from headlines, and found to be racially segregated, offering today and every day inferior education to black children. Black people still cannot understand why busing was perfectly acceptable when it was used to segregate the races and only when it was used to desegregate schools did it become a monstrous thing...