Word: murrayism
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...tempered but biting rebuttal to Murray, Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould said the book was indeed about race...
...most part, the standing-room-only audience listened to Murray's speech in silence. The only real interruption came at the beginning, when 40 members of Kennedy School minority action groups linked arms, stood peacefully for five minutes and quietly walked out. Their seats were soon filled by students who had been waiting at the door to get into the heavily secured auditorium...
...body of Murray's speech dealt not with race, but with the growing dichotomy he said he perceives between the "cognitive elite" and the "cognitive underclass" in America. Transformations in higher education, centralization of power and occupations requiring high levels of intelligence have created this cognitive elite since the 1950s, he said...
...What worried Dick Herrnstein and me about emerging cognitive elite is itsemergence into a group of society with a view allits own," Murray said...
...result of the discrepancy between theunderclass and the elite, Murray said theemergence of a "custodial state" is possible,"whereby we take one part of the population, wallthem off and try to continue on normally with therest of the country...