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Suffering from the wear of the long weekend, added to a little bus lag, the intrepid Crimson travellers played sloppyball in the first half, allowing the obviously-inferior Wheaton squad to stay within range...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Cliffe Cagers Thump Wheaton, 81-50 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

Surprise number two came two bouts later, after Ed Bordley had hurt his ribs and lost his match, 18-6. John Williams grabbed a comfortable 4-0 lead over an obviously inferior Yale matman but fell apart in the last four minutes to come off the mat an 8-6 loser...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Yale Tips Matmen, 23-15, Takes Ivy League Silver | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

...late 19th and early 20th centuries, was elaborated by the Southern historian Ulrich B. Phillips. The premise, which influenced historians well into this century, had it that blacks were innately lazy and incompetent, capable of working only under compulsion. In this view, blacks were childlike innocents, perhaps biologically inferior; slavery, whatever its excesses, was a generally benign means of giving the colored people civilized ways. Gone With the Wind carried that general message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Living with the 'Peculiar Institution' | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Members assembled to protest the "racist sociobiological statements of Harvard professors like Herrnstein, James Q. and E.O. Wilson, Glazer and Bernard" Davis, who assert that the poor and minorities are culturally and genetically inferior," Steven Rosenthal, Boston CAR organizer, said in a speech Saturday...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: CAR Protesters Attack Alleged Harvard Racism | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand was four when her father died. Barry dwells on Sand's early life, spent shuttling back and forth between her paternal grandmother's provincial estate and her mother's modest dwellings in Paris. The grandmother despised her "socially inferior" daughter-in-law and continually tried to separate her from the child. Sand later described herself as "the apple of discord" between the two rival mothers. Recalling one particularly violent separation from her mother, Sand wrote...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: The Feminist Troubadour | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

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