Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Samaritans frequently married Greeks and were Hellenized even before Alexander conquered them. A number of the nobles wore rings and seals with "lovely naked figures of Greek goddesses" as well as traditional symbols of Jewish religion. The discovery thus challenges the Biblical notion that the Samaritans were an inferior and degraded people. Seemingly, they were more like the good Samaritan that Jesus praised than those he referred to when he warned his disciples to "enter no town of the Samaritans" because they were defiled...
...survey also shows that foreign students with dependents often must live in, "inferior housing." Most cannot afford trips to other parts of the country and therefore, "return home with a distorted idea of the United States and its people as a whole...
...unified entity. As we might expect, this biggest, most isolated and distinctive, most long continued culture and society developed a strong tendency to look inward, an attitude of ethnocentrism or Sinocentrism, China being the center of the known world and of civilization, the non-Chinese being peripheral and inferior, China being superior to all foreign regions...
...Nice People's Escape." Why did they go? In his 1964 book, The Urban Complex, Robert Weaver reasoned: "It is an escape from changing neighborhoods, lower-class encroachment, inadequate public services and inferior schools. It is running away from the ugly facts of urban life; facts that have always existed, but never for long on the doorstep of 'nice people' who had the option of escape...
...have, then, five condemned people: Frantz to his attic and guilt; Leni to her incestuous love; the father to death in six months; Werner to his inferior position as unfavored son; and Johanna to an impossible choice. And they live in a world polarized by the existential isolation of Frantz's attic and the mundane world below. Frantz, to escape his war-time guilt, has tried to assume guilt for all. His rejection of ends-justifies-means ("evil was our only material... Good was the final product. Result: the good turned bad") is almost a Camus-esque rejection of political...