Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cultural Mafia." Afro-American culture, they contend, is not a poor imitation of its white American counterpart but a fully developed life-style of its own. By their reasoning, the origin of the little girl's reading trouble is really simple: compared with her customary ghetto speech, standard English is virtually a foreign language...
Black Laughter. Nor, they hasten to add, is it necessarily a superior one. Although educational psychologists have long insisted that Negro dialect shows all the characteristics of cultural deprivation, Stewart and his fellow investigators argue that linguistically it is as rich and diverse as standard spoken English. Many white Americans were astonished when Muhammed Ali, who earned reams of sports-page attention with his endless flow of doggerel, flunked an Army intelligence test. Psychologist Stephen Baratz, of the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there was really nothing particularly surprising about his jab at poesy: Negro children usually start...
...serve. Unless you like German food--about five different kinds of wursts--it's best to stick to the frankfurter with sauerkraut, a big juicy hotdog for 35 cents. The desserts, doughnuts, fruit salad, and apple crumbles, are also cheap and good. What ZumZum does best is breakfast, the standard fare plus apple pancakes, although you have to eat it off pewter plates. A nice filling breakfast with assorted German jams and maple syrup will cost you just a dollar...
With equally prejudiced eye, he rejects the standard four-legged stepladder, which in his judgment is an excellent device for "tossing people...
...undeniable mark of Calkins' school board record is his commitment to standard "liberal" causes. In his action on the school board, in his intricately-designed tax plans, and especially in is testimony before Congress, he has pleaded for more money to let the big cities meet their crying ghetto needs...