Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these cases, remedial interchanges are not of much use. But in less complicated situations they can help correct an impression of bad manners. A middle-class man who finds himself seated next to an "inferior" on a crowded bus "makes sure to present a bustling, purposeful air" when he gets off so that everyone understands he is no snob changing seats but just a man who has reached his destination...
...fate of the President's busing moratorium and proposals for improving inferior schools remained in doubt in Congress. Although they probably enjoy strong support, they are opposed by some key committee chairmen, including the House Education Committee's Carl Perkins of Kentucky. As hearings opened in a Senate subcommittee, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson defended Nixon's proposals. Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton bluntly branded Richardson's arguments for the President's compensatory education plan "hypocritical hogwash...
...busing by presidential decree or legislation; instead, he sought the slower route of a constitutional amendment. Jackson's amendment is under consideration in the Congress and it includes "freedom of choice" and the "neighborhood school," proposals long espoused by anti-integrationists. He also called for federal aid to inferior schools...
...unprepared-for ending quite reverses this premise. As the lady with frayed nerve ends, Joan Hackett is convincingly twitchy, but she overworks the part to camouflage how underwritten the play is. In superior forms of suspense, the audience is tipped to what the characters do not know. In inferior forms, like Night Watch, the audience is in the dark and must wait, none too pleasurably, to find out precisely how it has been fooled...
...feelings in the continuing debate as to whether Professor Richard Herrnstein's writings on "I.Q." are racist, was inadvertently pierced last week by Psychology Department chairman, Edwin Newman. According to the March 10 Crimson, Newman refused to give a definite answer as to whether he personally thinks blacks are inferior because "all the facts aren...