Word: inferior
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...Guitar and Mandolin Club (which later became the Instrumental Clubs). This club represented the students who were doing new things—playing non-classical music, and not studying music at the University. While the professors interested in music thought that the music these students were playing was inferior to classical music, they nevertheless recognized that these students were some of the most talented musicians on campus.” Zaccagnino said that he considers it an outrage that although the University has improved itself in so many ways over the past century, “nothing...
...cells from a cloned human embryo, a Sputnik-sized embarrassment for U.S. researchers. Stymied by the Bush administration’s 2001 prohibition on federal funds for research on newly-created stem cell lines, American scientists have long been confronted by an unattractive choice—use scarce, sometimes inferior government-approved stem cell lines or strike out alone without any federal cash...
...short step away. Too many have to question whether or not to find nakedly race-based defamation offensive. Too few are chagrined to see their peers overlook stereotypes so untenable and unconscionable. As long as the public continues to turn a blind eye to the imposition of inferior status on their countrymen, the collective goal of Asian Americans—to be respected as Americans, as citizens and as people—will not be achievable. Should this goal be more incompatible with their heritage than with others?...
While indeed unacceptable, it is par for the Harvard course. The College confers upon an inferior educational program the prestige of its name and, with the messy details of advising and teaching students, leaves the Harvard mystique to speak for reality...
...quick look at the current pop culture landscape reveals this rule is no longer true. Entertainers who were supposed to go the way of the dinosaur and Debbie Gibson have instead managed to maintain their celebrity, despite the often artistically inferior work they continue to produce...