Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that, "If the Princetonian had wanted to assert in sturdy chorus that his college...was deliberately and passionately America's norm in ideals of conduct and success, he would have gone to Yale...
...policy implications that Murray and Herrnstein arrive at can be hard to fathom, even if one accepts that improving IQ is as difficult as they say it is. Why not redouble attempts to bring the lagging populations, white and black, closer to the norm? Murray acknowledges that IQ may be more malleable than he supposes. But he holds that a workable strategy for intervention, especially by the bumptious instrument of government, is simply not there. And his philosophical conservatism predisposes him to look first for solutions that don't involve government at all. So The Bell Curve suggests ending welfare...
...batting average or the idea of three square meals a day. There have been times when any sex at all was a beautiful faraway ideal, like reincarnation, and there have been other periods when twice a day or hourly seemed pretty normal. But twice weekly was the norm, I thought, so it's a surprise to learn that according to the new survey, once a week is more like it. Only about a third of adults are keeping up the pace, another third are plugging along at two or three times a month, and for the remainder, sex is rare...
...course, that same theme of social difference is treated in a lot of different ways. It is a problem that can and must be overcome in order to return to the general social norm. In "Tootsie," for example, Dustin Hoffman only dresses up as a woman to make money--but he wants to be a man again so he can date Jessica Lange...
Initial shows of gratitude by the occupied are the norm. After all, they have often been liberated from something worse. And even if not, when men with guns and tanks arrive, it is a good idea to show a friendly face. It does not take long, however, for that face to turn...