Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty says it is trying harder, and the administration assures everyone from concerned alumni to worried parents to prospective high school seniors that, contrary to rumor, the stellar cast of teachers is available to every student. In view of this fact, and the current alarm, nationwide, over the inferior quality of American teaching. I wonder how the Government Department can defend its vote not to promote one of its finest teachers...
...well as bombers and cruise missiles for many this redefinition may appear to be a truism; how could anyone overlook these highly effective and deferent weapons system. But the fact remains that Reagan at least in his rehtoric has done just that. By calling the US force "vulnerable" and "inferior". he has tried to create an erroneous impression that we could be completely knocked out by a first strike ignoring the ability of our submarines to deliver a second strike long after our land based forces are destroyed. The Commission sums it up this way:"... to deter such surprise attacks...
...defy self-righteous students such as Cecil McNab to sit still and expouse "academic freedom" when a KKK member comes to deliver a speech at the Law School in which he calls Blacks "inferior" or in some way brings back the most pernicious racial slander perpetrated by pseudo-Darwinists at the beginning of this century. Mr. McNab's view represents, quite simply, the most blatant of double standards. Is his understanding of free speech that we must listen to such virulence as Rahman's in silence? Would he condemn the Falwell "hecklers" or those who protest at ACSR meetings...
Despite the problems with this work, there is a lot of promise here Rockwell's argument for musical pluralism and experimentation is a convincing one, but the structure of the book creates many problems it would have been wise to model All American Music after Rolling Stone's inferior but useful "Illustrated History of Rock & Roll," which combines essays about the most important artists with more general pieces providing an overall view of a particular movement Rockwell would have been able to discuss his themes more thoroughly and could have better dealt with artists he should not have ignored...
...superpower's margin of safety is the other's sense of being inferior and threatened. There can be no such thing as a one-sided buildup. One way or another, there will be competition. The only question is whether the competition will be ameliorated and regulated by arms control...