Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banfield flatly denies any of the charges that radicals have plagued him with for more than six years. "I am not a racist," Banfield says. "It is alleged that I have written that blacks are biologically inferior to whites, but that is wholly untrue. If some people call me a racist they will have to re-define the word...
...Bill was exceptionally bright, even for Harvard. He was brighter than most professors I had. Almost everyone who met him had difficulties dealing with him. Living with Bill had a negative effect on my performance. I felt inferior. Like when I had brainstorms, ideas I thought were really special. I would go talk to Bill about them. He would give me arguments for and against starting from the 12th century. It was demoralizing...
...exists on two fairly distinct levels, the academic and the social. Academic sexism is less noticeable, less important in an everyday context--unless you're in a heavily male field such as the sciences, where the professors still tend to look on women as members of an inferior species. There are of course a fair number of horror stories floating around--usually concerning persistent section men who, when spurned, retaliate with near-failing grades--but unless you're unusually beautiful or unusually lucky, you probably won't experience such things yourself...
...attempting to become a conglomerate, CBS has made some onerous acquisitions. To compete with RCA, it bought Hytron, a manufacturer of inferior TV sets, and finally abandoned it at a loss of $50 million. Shortly after CBS bought the New York Yankees in 1964, the glamorous team became a second-division bore. It was sold...
...tapes were not released, but over the years various tracks kept popping up in bootleg editions. Vexed by such fragmentation and by the inferior quality of the pirated versions, Dylan recently allowed Columbia to release the original material. The two-LP set, called The Basement Tapes, contains 24 songs, and is one of Dylan's best albums. Musically it is a transition between the assertive, nihilistic Blonde on Blonde (1966) and the mystical John Wesley Harding (1968). The tunes on The Basement Tapes are pithy, dense and funny. There are bizarre, surreal lyrics like Million Dollar Bash and traditional...