Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried our best to be sexy and interesting, feminine and creative. Why then were the Harvard guys always the more creative musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard society, laughed at the Radcliffe grindiness
...important thing to reali? from the outset, is that it is impossible to be inferior and equal at the same time: it is impossible to consider y?r role as a "good woman" to be that of ten-derly supporting whatever n?e you happen to be with in what ever he wants to do, and at the same time make plans for your own cr?ive existence...
...true villain behind the conflict racking America, Agnew says, is "not the bellicoseness of a few construction workers, but the supercilious attitude of some of the more educated members of our society who look down on policemen and plumbers and hard hats as inferior...
...guilty of "the basest sort of prejudice against women . . . His use of the menstrual cycle and menopause to ridicule women and to caricature all women as neurotic and emotionally unbalanced was as indefensible and astonishing as those who still believe, let alone dare state, that the Negro is physiologically inferior." Betty (The Feminine Mystique) Friedan, former president of the National Organization for Women, labeled the doctor's viewpoint "medieval...
...June, is especially proud of student performance vis-a-vis national averages ("for city kids, it's unheard of"), and noted that blacks showed greater advances than their white classmates. As he sees it, the project constitutes "a substantial refutation of the idea that black kids are inferior by their heritage, and therefore nothing can be done for them." Every bit as enthusiastic, many students used their newly acquired words to write glowing thank-you notes to Kottmeyer. Excerpts...