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...with what look and sound like $20 speakers. Sound from a stereo can only be as good as the signal from the weakest component in the system; it's a waste of money to get decent sound through all those transistors and capacitors in the amplifier only to allow inferior speakers to mangle it. Also, ignore everything the brochures and salesmen tell you about these systems. At this price range the statistics are meaningless--shop around for an afternoon or two and buy whatever sounds best...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Your Stereo Is Only As Good as the Speakers | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

...decade ventured into the fields of biology and genetics, disciplines in which he is not an acknowledged expert, to propound a theory he labels dysgenics. He defines it as "retrogressive evolution through the disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged." One of its controversial contentions is that blacks are genetically inferior to whites in intellectual capacity. Another is that bonuses should be paid to persons with less than an average IQ who are voluntarily sterilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Free Speech? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...turn themselves and their friends into case studies, into role models, or even into interesting people, which they are not. The Gospel According to The Harvard Business School, dealing with the Harvard Business School from September 1968 to June 1970 is really nothing more than a strike book, an inferior version of Push Comes to Shove (as if Kelman's book were not bad enough), too out of date, even more pretentious, and outrageously overpriced--but maybe he learned something from the Business School...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Walking Across the Water | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter's superiority to margarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The French Confection | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

Here, for fearful lowlanders, is the second crime novel in a year that characterizes mountain climbers as homicidal maniacs. (The first was The Eiger Sanction, an inferior but celebrated book by a pseudonymity called "Trevanian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Variously Notable | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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