Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee's findings suggest that most law school personnel feel that the majority of minority-group students, when measured against the traditional credentials of law school students, have academic records inferior to those of the "majority-group students...
...should the viewer think only in terms of the Met's great collection: Boston's own collection is not inferior to the Met's loan. In fact, probably the greatest early American paintings belong to the MFA: John Singleton Copley's portraits and Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washington have few equals (not to mention Boston's John Singer Sargent canvasses). If Van Der Weyden's Christ Appearing to His Mother makes the viewer sigh, he should take a look at home- Van Der Weyden's Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, in Boston's permanent collection...
When Nasser was born in Alexandria in 1918, the city owed more to French and British culture than to Egyptian. Things native were regarded as inferior. As late as 1945, a Westerner who had just moved to Alexandria was advised by a friend to learn "the language of the country immediately." When he protested that Arabic would be difficult to master in a short time, his friend snapped: "Not Arabic, stupid. French. That is the language we speak here...
...Radcliffe the situation is more complicated, because women do have the desire to succeed academically-but it must be remembered that academic success per se is a significantly inferior quality in a community where creativity and brilliance are the ideal, where men pride themselves on their capacity to spend a semester directing plays, then walks into an exam and do as well as a woman who has spent the semester grinding...
Besides the practical reasons against equal enrollment, Dean Peterson and his committee alternated between two theoretical or philosophical reasons, the pluralism idea that "women are different" and the straightforward declaration that women are inferior...