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...part of Hitler's drive to exterminate "inferior races," the Nazis in 1938 established a Central Office for Combatting the Gypsy Menace, which arbitrarily classified thousands of gypsies as common criminals and sent them to concentration camps. Later, gypsies became targets of the Nazi crusade for racial purity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Nazis' Forgotten Victims | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...something happened. First a loss to Dartmouth. The a narrow victory over inferior Brown. Then another loss, this time to Princeton. Than UConn. Then Yale. All well-played games; all demoralizing losses...

Author: By Bruce Schoefeld, | Title: Stickwomen Lose, Finish Season 6-7 | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

...other Third World groups) on this campus. Although we all realize that prejudice is strong beyond our "ivy walls," our efforts have been to change the attitudes on campus rather than those of society. We feel the need to disprove those individuals at Harvard who feel we are inferior in intellect. However, I think that this important campus-wide struggle tends to cloud the real obstacles to achieving equal status. To the racist the supposed intellectual inferiority sometimes attributed to blacks is justification for discrimination. It came as a shocking reintroduction to society that despite the number of achievements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Question of Credibility | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...evidence mode of historical accounting. He believes in sticking to the facts--even though at times the "provable facts" were actually incorrect. Works such as U.B. Phillips' American Negro Slavery, written in 1929, distorted the facts of history when they included as a "proven fact" that blacks were racially inferior. Although we are never told quite why, Handlin finds these illusions forgivable...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Tale of Woe | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Rice-Lloyd Webber score is inferior to their work in Jesus Christ Super star. While ingratiatingly melodic for the most part, Lloyd Webber's tunes seem to have been composed by the British equivalent of ASCAP anonymous. Rice's lyrics too often rely on straw-clutching rhymes. The dying Eva plaintively asks, "What is the good of the strongest heart/ In a body that's falling apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Vogue of the Age: Carrion Chic | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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