Word: inferiorated
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...many of us are ignorant of the architects, the surgeons, the bishops and diplomats whose achievement slaps the face of those bigots who brand the Negro as naturally inferior. I was filled with a sense of pride, especially since I am not a Negro, in seeing these men and women proving that the Negro's potential is equal to the white's and must not be wasted...
...trouble is that the bargains usually turn out to be something quite different. That transistor radio not only did not cost $41.50, but can actually be bought at retail for less than $10; though the ads make the blenders out to be a high-quality product, they are inferior models retailing for $12. By taking on names and trappings that made them sound like legitimate liquidators (who often do sell at distress prices), a new breed of mail order firm has made pseudo liquidating one of the nation's most successful selling rackets, condemned by the Federal Trade Commission...
...criminal proceedings, legal services are generally available only to those who can afford them. A penniless accused criminal must be provided with counsel, but lower- and middle-income people with civil problems often must make do without lawyers or "are likely to be served by lawyers with markedly inferior technical and ethical standards." Gellhorn mentioned legal "clinics" as a possibility, along with other substitutes for "traditional representation that cannot now be provided economically...
...Playwright as Label. The one-halfmanship of buying a playwright's brand name on a piece of inferior work is illustrated by Jean Genet's The Maids. Two maids (Lee Grant and Kathleen Widdoes) dress up in their mistress' finery and plot her murder by poisoning her tea. The mistress (Eunice Anderson) avoids drinking the tea. One maid commits suicide, and the other expects to hang. For Genet, the theater is an instrument of the outcast's fantasized revenge: his characters ritually murder the authority they hate and envy by donning the vestments of the powers...
...ghetto in Boston--the "black boomerang" in Roxbury--continues to grow, and today a significantly larger part of the Comfonwealth's Negro citizens live in this area than did a dozen years ago. These people must spend more money for poorer housing than other citizens and their children attend inferior schools because the Boston School Committee refuses to acknowledge the existence of de facto segregation...