Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER...
...winning. In fact research has shown that women who fear success in this sense do not follow careers even though they may have ample opportunity to do so--such as a PhD. and no husband or children to hinder them. Many women in our society have learned that being smarter than a man, outwitting or challenging him is not appreciated by large numbers of the male sex. Many men are simply not interested in women who are smarter, cleverer, more assertive than they are. So many women have learned to back off from competition with...
...must be evenly distributed among the Houses. The message gets through rather clearly to many women that they are being valued on the basis of their beauty and their bodies rather than their brains, since it is hardly likely that the men want them so much because they are smarter. So there is a lot of pressure at Radcliffe as there is elsewhere in America for women to accept themselves as being valued in other ways than by being competitive, assertive and smarter than...
...time of depression. Students might rather live a declining middle class life than admit to working class status--education may suggest the possibilities of a less suffocating type of life, but it also sets students off from other workers, leading them to believe they are better and smarter than ordinary people. The shabby prestige of working in an office--no matter how near the bottom or how repetitive the job--still exerts attraction that no "objective" economic analysis can explain. In trying to be hopeful, Smith makes the same mistake as Orwell in "The Road to Wigan Pier": the status...
...priest in charge of the seminary. Bill didn't trust priests, but I told him that I grew up around priests and had been taught by priests and served them at Mass and I knew for sure we would have one maybe even two, comfortable rooms Bill was smarter than I thought. The priest just kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." He gave us a tip about a youth hostel outside of Reno and we walked about two miles to get there. But it was locked and it looked unapproachable in the middle of flat land...