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...Does current social policy really have liberalizing goals? Despite the rhetoric, many of us have been driven to a negative answer in recent years by evidence too painful to overlook any more. As Herrnstein himself states, we simply do not know how much, if any, of the current I.Q. difference between social groups is genetically determined. (Herrnstein fortunately avoids Jensen's fallacious extrapolation of heritability from data within a group to a comparison between groups.) If, as is entirely possible, external rather than genetic inequalities are primarily responsible for current I.Q. differences between social classes, and if these external inequalities...
...There seemed to be a tacit agreement between the City and Harvard to overlook it since no hard liquor was sold," one tutor said...
...inclined for a time to moody fatalism, his nearly hyperthyroid present political pace and his family life leave little time for brooding. The Kennedys' $750,000 gray-shingled house and five acres in McLean, Va., overlook the Potomac River. Despite the back injury from his near-fatal 1964 air crash, he plays tennis frequently, at his own court or at Ethel's home at Hickory Hill, often coaching his two eldest children. He swims once or twice a week in the Senate gym, skis with the family on winter vacations and occasionally hazards a game of touch football...
...problem becomes even more complex, because fundamentally the explanations and motivations conflict. You may favor economic aid as a humanitarian gesture and overlook the provisos which bind the people of the recipient nation to a life of misery. You may press for tariff reductions as a "progressive" move and not realize that only industrialized nations with high-cost manufactured goods progress in a tariff-free market economy. You may deplore the life style of South American peasants and forget the cheap price of bananas and the high dividends on your copper stock. But when you wake up, and see that...
...protrays this world admirably. The set is classic; pictures of the Doges' Palace, Grandmother, and the family dogs overlook crumpled chairs and a decanter of port. The costumes are all very tweedy, exuding pipe tobacco or rose water. The acting blends right in, and except for the usual accent problems (why can't American actors stop trying to convince us they are really British?) is generally quite competent. The women are the best; Gloria Fisher as Mrs. Smith is the Perfect Lady, who covers up her viciousness by layers of daubbed on gentility. Sarah Kindleberger as Mrs. Martin demonstrates...