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More specifically, he contends that "Nixon said he believed America's blacks . . . were genetically inferior to whites." But he quotes The author Nixon: "We should still do what we could for them, within reasonable limits, because it was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIXON YEARS REVISITED | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...reasons he left was personal: as a homosexual, he found greater freedom in Italy. Recalls Henze: "Thirty years ago, I had an active homosexual life. But you could be arrested for having a boyfriend. One was permanently humiliated and terrified that one's music could be declared biologically inferior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Marxist Art, Capitalist Style | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...affront that must be answered in kind. In Great Britain, on the other hand, a serious artist may fail, have his work taken apart, and still be treated civilly by critics and audiences: there is a middle ground between shutting one's eyes to the deficiencies of an obviously inferior work and tarring and feathering the artist...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Cowardly Trilogy | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...ENDORSE increased minority participation in the Harvard Law Review. Such growth, must not, however, spring from any minority-conscious admissions policy. Broadening the admissions criteria beyond excellence in academic and written work might well achieve this desirable goal, but it would also stigmatize certain minorities as collectively inferior to other, better represented groups. Those who call for a greater diversity of perspective imply that because in the past minorities have been underrepresented on the review, they can never meet the present standards in numbers sufficient to guarantee them a visible role on the Review--unless they are given a handout...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: No Hand-Outs | 12/1/1981 | See Source »

...Harper & Row; $15.95) also discusses the origins of chowder, while adding that the tomatoey Manhattan version of the soup is an apostasy to be denounced from every down East pulpit. A charitable explanation is that Maine chowder is made from "an elongated bivalve," while the New York pretender uses inferior quahogs, "and no State of Mainer in his right mind eats them." If he had to make a chowder out of quahogs, Yankee affirms, a Mainer would put tomatoes in it too, "and garlic and beach plums and chestnuts and about anything else he could think of to improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Born to Eat Their Words | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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