Word: shockley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich...New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson." A report in the New York Times (Sept. 26, 1979) on the assassination of a French-Jewish leftist, remarked about the "emergence of a group of intellectuals calling themselves the New Right who argue that there is a scientific base for elitism in sociobiology...
...subversion' but this egalitarian ideology whose formulas . . . have flourished for 2,000 years." New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley and Edward O. Wilson. France's New Righters thus call for a "meritocratic" society in which the ablest and most intelligent would rule. As practical steps toward this goal, they suggest a variety of programs ranging from abortion and genetic control to a new kind of elitist education that...
...William Shockley, author of a controversial theory that correlates IQ with race, said yesterday "the American intellectual community" has demonstrated "profound intellectual irresponsibility" on this issue. He added that while "Dorfman has done a sound piece of work," his conclusion is "not entirely warranted...
...what ends (no pun intended) such action might afford me. However, your very argument as to what is preventing the Black student body from achieving what it should is ludicrous. You say that we are held back by holding on to one another. Funny, sir, but you and Shockley see eye to eye on this point, along with the South Boston racists who oppose bussing on the grounds that any child, no matter how bright, suffers from limited capabilities when he is placed in a classroom situation with black children. You are, in effect, telling us that the black community...
...first full recruiting year I got Mike Wilhite, Jeff Combs and Elmer Love," Penders said. Penders flew out to the coast to persuade Love to come to Morningside Heights over Stanford. Love, however, decided to take this year off, and back-up center Ed Shockley also left the team--to turn campus playwright--breaking his nose in practice...