Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zoorland and Pale Fire's Zembla. Though the author admits that Martin might be "a distant cousin with whom I share certain childhood memories," one is enjoined against "flipping through Speak, Memory [Nabokov's autobiography] in quest of duplicate items." Instead, the dutiful reader -always feeling vaguely inferior to the ideal Russian reader-is urged to concentrate on "the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus: in an old daydream...
...Nobody Knows was one of the first musicals of its kind when it opened in New York off-Broadway. Then its rhetoric, its "message" might have fit in and been original. But it was followed by some inferior shows that droned on the same theme so that now it cannot help but seem somewhat hackneyed. And Hubert Humphrey was a great Mayor of Minneapolis...
...your story "Is There Life on Mars -or Beyond?" [Dec. 13], your writer commented that possibly the civilization that received our message would not bother to reply, and you quoted Astronomer Carl Sagan as saying that they might find men as inferior as men find ants...
...bitter controversy over the reasons for low IQs, some psychologists, notably Arthur Jensen and Richard Herrnstein (TIME, Aug. 23) put the blame largely on inferior genes. Others believe that environment-especially the environment of the ghetto -is of primary importance. A recent report on the first five years of an experiment with mentally retarded mothers and their children in Milwaukee supports the latter view. It also offers persuasive evidence that mental retardation in the offspring of mentally retarded mothers can be prevented...
...came The Little Red Caboose (Golden Press), who resented the status of "the big black engine, puffing and chuffing" way up at the front of the train. But when the Little Red Caboose saves the train by slamming on its brakes on a hill, it is reconciled to an inferior status. Now we have Bill Feet's The Caboose Who Got Loose (Houghton Mifflin; $4.95). Not an "it" but a "she" longing to be liberated, Katy Caboose not only resents the "proud and powerful" male-chauvinist engine; she hates the noise and the jolting and the smoke, and longs...