Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unforgiven. In Salt Lake City, where he conferred with David McKay, head of the Mormon Church, Romney was at his forthright best. He attended an interfaith ministers' meeting and was fully prepared when the inevitable question arose about the inferior status of Negroes in the Mormon Church. "I was raised in the conviction that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are divinely inspired documents of the Creator, and all mankind is the child of God with basic rights," he said. "I have fought to eliminate racial discrimination. I want to be judged on the basis of my actions...
...main criticism of The Negro Family came from middle-class liberals, black and white. The charge was that the report raised the spectre of Negro inferiority. Moynihan was at complete liberty to demolish these arguments, as he does in his Commentary article. Obviously certain problems--illegitimacy (that is, reported births out of wedlock), lack of education, inferior housing, and unsanitary living conditions--simply go along with poverty and discrimination...
...made the faculty feel inferior and lose its sense of authority. How can you teach with any confidence, when you have to put your emotions as well as your knowledge on the line every day, or otherwise three-quarters of your class will be boning up in the library, and only panic-stricken dullards will be out there in front of you? No matter who succeeds Raynsword [Hutchins], Individualized Education has to go. And of course we'll have to bring back football...
...affected just as heavily by decisions of the overseers as students at the college. And since Cliffies know as much (if not more) about the affairs of the University, there can be really no valid argument against giving them the vote, unless it be determined that they are inherently inferior...
Harvard swordsmen have little reason to feel inferior to the Lions this season. Columbia has already lost to C.C.N.Y., a team which the Crimson slashed...