Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusty Skills. In contrast, The Looking Glass War is totally dehumanized. Leamas is believable; Leiser is not. The book's tension depends not so much on Leiser's spying mission to East Germany as on the efforts of a scorned and inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra...
...education of 700 "poor, white male orphans." To desegregate Girard has become the consuming passion of Cecil Moore, the militant president of Philadelphia's N.A.A.C.P. "It's a perpetual red flag," protests Moore. "A boy wakes up every morning to see a reminder that he's inferior...
Simone: All through history women have thought of themselves as Other, the second, the inferior, subordinate, dependent, less primary sex. We are moving only now to something different...
...only traditional, its basic. The most fundamental division of the human species. Man-and-woman. One and one makes two. Daddy and mommy. Sperm and egg. You can't get away from all that and with all that comes a lot of other things. Superior and inferior, for instance, stronger...
...Heinrich Heine said, "We Germans are idealists even when we hate." The other, and contradictory, quality is an alarming literal-mindedness, which made it possible even for many educated Germans to absorb and act on Nazism's pseudo science; other people have accepted crackpot theories about inferior races, but, unlike the Nazi leadership, they have not moved from the false premises to the insanely logical conclusion of systematic extermination...