Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper appears to be of an inferior grade, the type is not as easy on the eyes...
...minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday which precedes the concert. More probably, Koussevitzky feels that this symphony has unjustly suffered because it has been overplayed and not because it is inferior workmanship. One thing is sure, that a great conductor can make this symphony, a force of power and beauty; and it is in this type of essentially dramatic music that Koussevitzky's special forte lies...
...Jewish children remaining in Nazi schools are used as object lessons. A teacher calls a little Jewish girl to the front of a class, asks other pupils: "What do you see in this face?" They answer obediently: "A gigantic nose, Negroid lips, inferior frizzy hair." The teacher adds: "You see, besides, a cowardly and disloyal facial expression...
...after a careful statistical investigation, an educator concluded that the place where a child is born has a great deal to do with the chances of his being intelligent. Dr. Glenn Myers Blair separated 3,000 junior and senior high-school youngsters in Everett, Wash, into mentally superior and inferior groups and then determined where their parents, nine out of ten of whom originally lived outside the State, were born. His findings: parents from the northern States of the U. S. produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright...
Last year there were also temporary disappointments. An amazingly fast Big Green team from the hills of Hanover outsloshed the Harlowmen on a muddy field and won 20-2. An inferior Army team triumphed 7-6, when Harvard's injury-riddled eleven pushed them all over the gridiren but lacked the key men to score...