Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purposes but also observing all the comings and goings. Everyone knows who everyone else spends time with and talks about it in the interest of friendship. Some girls pick their dates for their friends rather than themselves. Girls who don't go out at all feel miserable and inferior. They are instantly typed...
Blue Fire. Other stories examine what might happen when it is man's turn to explore other worlds, possibly to encounter life forms both inferior and superior to his own. One chilling short novel published in 1954, Lester del Rey's For I Am a Jealous People, told of a future in which mankind comes up against an ambitious race of conquerors with whom God has made a new Covenant-against earth men. Ray Bradbury's story of "The Fire Balloons" in The Illustrated Man tells of a gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover...
Even the most recalcitrant whites are likely to accept social integration at a faster rate if they gain far more than they lose in the process. One idea should certainly be tried out in the hundreds of lower-middle-class schools that are now in many ways just as inferior as those in black ghettos; these schools should be upgraded while being integrated. Instead of punishing communities that fail to integrate, for example, the Federal Government might well reward those that do so by increasing their subsidies. Equally important, the cities must soon combine help for black ghettos with more...
...heating, which is not an unqualified advance. Since there is a limit-for most people a fairly low one-to how far the pleasures of sitting at table can be enhanced by increasing the amount and quality of the food, it is probable that eating will become an inferior pursuit...
...lives Irina as he had loved her mother. Carnovsky provides a masterly depiction of a gradually deteriorating personality. He has never read a book, and occupies himself with little that is more lofty than his ever-present daily newspaper (in real Russian, too). He must have been a pretty inferior physician at the outset, and in the course of the play he sinks to the belief that absolutely nothing matters anymore. So far gone is Carnovsky's doctor that, after washing and drying his hand in a basin, he proceeds immediately to wash them all over again...