Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with no Negroes in its entering class of 131, so it recruited four who may need tutoring in science. Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, with a class of 132, accepted four Negroes on the strength of routine tests, then added a fifth who had a substandard school record but showed unusual motivation...
...Substandard dialogue and music can sometimes be forgiven, though not enjoyed . But The Golden Screw is unforgiveably inane because Sankey looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero...
...white families are classified as poor. But 32% of all black families are classified as poor. Thus, while only one out of every seven white persons in America is poor, one out of every three black persons is poor. What's more, 45% of all substandard housing in America is occupied by black people...
...withdrawal of funds culminated a two month protest against Gordon by the B.U. News, Students for a Democratic Society, and other groups. They claim that Gordon maintains substandard housing in South Boston and Roxbury and has been recalcitrant in correcting housing complaints to the Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination...
Kirk's frugality caused the N.E.A. to warn its nationwide membership of 1,000,000 that working conditions for teachers were substandard in the state and that it could be considered "unethical" for them to take a job there. Leaders of the Florida association even urged businesses to open no new branches in the state, unsuccessfully opposed Miami's effort to bring the 1968 Republican National Convention there. An N.E.A. task force toured six of Florida's largest cities, urging civic and business leaders to lobby for a special legislative session devoted to school problems...