Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ones with the much better preparation should score higher than, or at least as high as the others. Yet at Harvard Preppies are the ones who score lower. Whether or not they are really less intelligent, judging by Harvard's criteria, they are indeed less intelligent. They may be smarter, but they aren't showing it according to Harvard's indicators. What about narture and inheritance? It has not made them as impressive academically. It is only through long contact with Harvard that by their senior year the preppies do almost as well as the pubbies. Also, the median predicted...
...doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham. He is booted out, thanks to the connivance of, among others, a homosexual programming chief in Hollywood...
...them. Consequently, in his story Harrison Bergeron, a "Handicapper General" cripples people mentally and physically to keep everyone to the norm. "The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General...
During lunch break, since our classes were made up according to ability, I always hung around with the smart kids, but since the smarter kinds always tended to be middle class, there was only partial identification with the group. We had a common language, but different values. The group I belonged to was more of a debating society than a friendship group...
...gang type. No pressure to succeed, in fact just the opposite. I could taxi along very comfortably. I even copied some of the work I had to do from some of the other kids. I adapted to that extent. My first semester I had a 93 average. I was smarter than all but one or two kids in the school so I had no trouble getting...