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Affirmative action can give members of this community a chance to experience the benefits of higher education, which would otherwise be denied them because of SAT scores inferior to those of students from more affluent backgrounds...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Reaffirming Affirmative Action | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

...does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened Augustan Whigs, adored by the whole inferior creation from their wives to their dogs and filling their rotundas with the works of Claude and Praxiteles. Surely by now an American museum can admit that a few of these paragons were educated brutes with Titians, like a few of their modern counterparts? Or that their ideology of cultural property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brideshead Redecorated | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...reputation for superior quality. American automen insist they have improved the quality of their cars enough to equal the Japanese, but many motorists do not believe them. Workmanship is also a problem for U.S. exporters: surveys show that Japanese consumers think the quality of American goods is inferior to that of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Barriers | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...Citizen Kane, cinematographer Ian Baker arbitrarily splices the film every twenty minutes or so in order to mark the passage of time, eschewing the more conventional and smoother dissolving methods. The problem, of course, is that Baker isn't Welles and his product is nothing more than a pretentious, inferior copy of the real thing...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Hare's 'Plenty' Promises, But Comes Up Empty | 9/27/1985 | See Source »

...black dictators, or brown, yellow or white. The people will reject us. When we defy God's law that we are made in his image, we are in trouble. We are dealing here with a situation in which one human being says to another, "You are inferior because God made you black." There is no exception to God's law on human rights. The dignity of man is there, always. Power must be given to all the people of South Africa, all of them. The 5 million whites are as African as I am, and so are the 24 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for an Explosion | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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