Word: inferiority
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...appear to feel threatened by my bringing up this issue. Furthermore, I have received a stream of insulting and threatening emails calling me, among other things, an “anti-Semite,” a “pussy,” and a “mentally inferior black jew-hater.” Some called for my dismissal. It is difficult to stand up while everyone else is sitting down. One risks the hammer...
...committee that drafted the new Gen Ed rules tried to produce something more innovative than the kind of distribution requirements that other schools have,” he wrote. “In the end, the process generated a product that was innovative but inferior. Unfortunately, it looks like we have little choice now but to live with...
...Coordinator, said the biggest barrier to a total switch to recycled paper is Harvard’s decentralization. Because each department of each school purchases its own supplies, it is more difficult to make all the purchasers aware of the new contract. In the past, recycled paper was considered inferior in quality and sometimes caused printers to jam. But Olmsted said Harvard Medical School sponsored a recycled paper challenge to show the quality of recycled paper and to encourage the school to make the change. Gogan said that recycled paper has advantages, as it is more opaque than virgin paper...
...newest incoming class. Not only were you suddenly a college student after four long years in secondary-school purgatory: You were a Harvard student! For that brief moment, the modesty that you exuded as you waited nervously for that letter to arrive flew out the window, along with the inferior acceptance letters of Princeton and Yale. For a split second, you felt like...
...problem is not that “art” is becoming the inferior “entertainment”—indeed the boundary between the two is often blurry. The important distinction is in the degree and subtlety of thought involved, both that which goes into the creative product and that which it provokes. The stupidity of Shvarts’ and others’ projects stems from the sense that the pure, ugly spectacle is all that there is to be had here. We might as well attend a Victorian freak show or circus...