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...earlier era, a black athlete, no matter how gifted, could not realistically hope to become a star pro quarterback. Coaches believed that blacks genetically did not have enough intellect to call plays. Also: white players would not accept the leadership of a black field general. And of course: blacks won't measure up in clutch situations -- a view revived by the Greek in his statement that the Redskins' Williams might "choke" under pressure. As black Basketball Player Isiah Thomas pointed out last year during a storm of opprobrium about his views on Larry Bird, sportswriters are always dubbing black stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Of Mandingo and Jimmy the Greek | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...crotchety, and inept at driving as those we find in Mr. Morris's hackneyed portrayal. My own Jewish grandparents, who live in Fort Lauderdale, the very belly of Mr. Morris's beast, are actually quite capable drivers and, strangely enough, have even shown signs of outright altruism and intellect. I hope that their virtues might serve as a counter-example to the underlying theory of Mr. Morris's diatribe. As to the other theory proposed in the piece, that which seeks to find a connection among such concepts as banks, stinginess, and "paranoid, bigmouthed, incredibly pushy New York Jews:" what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Objection to `Where the Old People Bake Their Brains' | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...part, Gish proves that she can work as well in sound films as in silent ones. Gish creates a likeable woman of amazing stamina, if ordinary intellect. This is an achievement, considering the script she's given--she has to talk to a picture and act obsessed with the whales she hopes to see off the coast (they predict the coming of fall...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: August Company | 1/8/1988 | See Source »

...HRDC's "strategy". Elite, favor, elect: these words run through McGanney's article. Yet how does she know who is in my "favor"? Has she, over our lunch meetings, looked deep into my soul and seen to its finest detail the bias I wield over my intellect? Does she know which directors have worked during my tenure, and my relationship with them? She uses fighting words, and she had best have strong proof to back them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ex | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...stutters and splutters when meeting other people. All the energy of his psyche seems to have gone inward. He remains romantically fixated on a long-dead schoolmate who is a living, palpable presence in the play. In Jacobi's haunted portrayal, giggly boyishness not only coexists with soaring intellect but is essential to it: learning to live within the codes of adulthood would shut down this man's wonder and imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ingenuousness And Genius BREAKING THE CODE | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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