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...tricky question, how the experiences of women differ from those of men. The idea of specific masculine and feminine reactions to pain or work or sex has been used over and over again to show how women are weaker or stupider or basically inferior to men. For example, for two hundred years, women who write fiction have been saddled with either accepting or trying to deny "the bright, controlled subjectivity of a feminine prose manner"--all the words and criticisms that have relegated the works of both Jane Austen and Jacqueline Susann to the same back boudoir filled with overfrilled...
There are many ways to lose a basketball game. You can have a last-minute rally fall one point short in the final seconds as Harvard did against Brown a week ago, or you can be upset by a team inferior in talent but superior in inspiration as was the case in last Tuesday's Harvard-Brandeis encounter...
...powers of cloakroom persuasion. His range is indicated by two pieces of legislation that he considers to be major achievements: 1) an act creating a comprehensive federal policy on environmental protection, and 2) an amendment directing that future arms agreements with Russia do not leave the U.S. with inferior numbers of weapons. Critics point out that numbers alone are largely meaningless, but this hardly bothers Jackson...
...limits, if any, should be put on persons advocating highly controversial views has been hotly debated on university campuses, the traditional American citadels of free speech. The man at the center of the storm has often been Physicist William Shockley of Stanford University, who theorizes that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. On April 15, 1974, a group of howling students, stomping their feet and shouting slogans, made it impossible for Shockley to address an audience at Yale University...
...AMERICAN BIBLE (1970). A rigorously contemporary, sometimes spare, U.S. Catholic rendition. Also a translation from the original languages, it and the Jerusalem Bible are supplanting the Douay-Rheims Bible, a Catholic version contemporary with, but inferior to, the King James...