Word: inferiors
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Consistently throughout The Great Santini, in this scene as in others, Duvall, Danner, and O'Keefe save an inferior screenplay with their almost uniformly excellent performances. But bad editing also diminishes the impact their talents have on the film. These problems riddle the scenes between O'Keefe and Stan Shaw, who plays Toomer, a stuttering Black "boy" who, together with his mother, the Meechum's maid, and 14 or so large German shepherd dogs trained to attack white folks, lives in a trailer on the outskirts of the town...
...peer pressure exists within the FSLN to behave like good egalitarians. Because AMNLAE has the status of a government organization, it has much contact with other departments and serves as a moral watchdog. But the end result can be deception. "If I felt a woman 'comrade' was inferior, I wouldn't let anyone know," one male Ministry of Health official confesses. "I'd be branded as 'counterrevolutionary.' But," he adds, "although the popular FSLN view is that a woman is more desirable if she fought or was active in the revolution, there are still many men who treat women...
What began after one war ended with another. Travel writers were gradually; displaced by foreign correspondents, exotica gave way to political realities. Fussel likes to sound crotchety about the inferior modern substitute for travel, but he knows it is too late to deny people Disneyland or twelve nights and 13 days of prepackaged; fun. His book is a fitting substitute for the real thing; it is a journey in time and space, offering the serendipitous pleasures of the open road...
...than a decade ago. The percentage of black high school graduates who go on to college (31.5%) has nearly caught up with that of the whites (32.2%). With 11.6% of the total population, blacks now provide 10% of the total college enrollment. True, the many black colleges are still inferior to many white ones, and about half of black college students attend traditionally black institutions. But Watson concedes: "The fortunes of black Americans seeking higher education have improved dramatically. Only a fool or a charlatan would deny that there has been progress...
...choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"). Theo's career as Communist agent is unraveled after his death by bestselling Writer Anthony Stern, a straight second cousin who had been his social inferior and dearest friend...