Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future. What Northern Catholics still want, says O'Brien, is equality in their own state. Among those benefits they would not enjoy in a unified Ireland he cites the National Health Scheme and an elaborate system of welfare available to Northern Catholics as British subjects, both nonexistent or inferior in the Irish Republic...
Chesler also charges that therapists consider women to be inferior beings. In treatment, she insists, women are encouraged to talk instead of to act, to live passively instead of being active and to conform to a "feminine" role. They are forced to re-enact with their patriarchal therapists the role that initially made them sick: little girls in thrall to their fathers. Worst of all, women patients are often sexually exploited by male therapists, Chesler alleges...
Acknowledging that "some psychiatrists may be male chauvinist pigs," Burness Moore of Manhattan, president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association, emphasizes that such chauvinism "isn't implicit in the theory of analysis." Psychiatric theories of personality, he observes, do not hold women inferior to men. True, many psychiatrists accept Freud's famous "anatomy is destiny" dictum, which is anathema to feminists. To professionals, though, the doctrine does not condemn women to second-class citizenship; it means only that, as Hartford Psychoanalyst Rebecca Solomon puts it, "Women have to cope psychologically with the facts of their biology. They...
...think that Harvard was simply unlucky. The Crimson hit the post twice and missed by inches numerous times. Hockey is a sufficiently chance game that a team can outplay an inferior opponent for three periods and still lose by three goals. That is one major reason it is almost impossible to go undefeated over a 25-game schedule, and that is why Harvard lost to the Big Red. It's just unfortunate that bad luck should intervene against nemesis Cornell...
...sold a Rouault oil to a collector for $2.6 million last year, and Japan's new passion for Western painting has been reflected in similarly inflated prices all the way down the line. Works by the old reliables of the Paris School-Chagall, Modigliani, Renoir, Picasso-many of inferior quality and some of them outright fakes, routinely go for 20% to 2,000% above their New York or London prices. About 500 galleries have mushroomed in Japan, and especially along the Ginza, in the past few years. Says Dealer Yoko Fukushima: "The mad Japanese buying abroad has long turned...