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Perhaps the Confucian work ethic is the source of motivation for some Asian-Americans. But to describe this as the sole reason for the entire group's relative academic success is a shallow analysis of a complex interplay of forces...

Author: By Laurance L. Lee, | Title: The `Model Minority' Myth | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

...delivered some livestock to the plutocrats Henry and John Jay Astor. On the last three days of the trip from Ohio to New York, Drew refused to let his cattle drink. Just before they clomped up to the weighing station, he let the animals slake their thirst at a shallow creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Pigs Always Get Slaughtered | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...Shallow Team...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: Penn Plasters Harvard Fencers | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

Updating a show is legitimate practice, especially since Brent's plot is somewhat cliched and shallow--typical of '30s musicals. But Barton's and Schaffer's delivery of original material is so strong that it overshadows almost everything else in the show--including Porter's likeable score...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

...bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KATE BRAVERMAN: From The Tropic of L.A.: Novelist and poet | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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