Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMPETITION HAS MULTIPLIED. "Today, with a superior education, there are no bars to equality for any white American-and poverty itself is no direct bar to obtaining an education. Furthermore, education is now the only channel of upward mobility in our society, since the amassing of great wealth is now virtually impossible...
...common childhood dream is one in which the dreamer overpowers his parents and becomes their acknowledged superior. The Glass children have satisfied this desire from birth; their father is a colorless nothing, their mother a somewhat comic sycophant to their talents. In short, the Glasses have never really grown up at all, but remain big children, hating those who will not play their games, attracting those who will...
...weaknesses in Mr. Hoffmann's case result from his inability to make a convincing argument that defective questions are as ubiquitous as he threatens they are, and from his failure to explain his belief that the presence of even a few defective questions will hamper the performance of superior students on the remainder of the examination. On this last point he seems to ignore the possibility that the superior student might recognize the defective question for what it is skip it, and forget about it. All we hear from him is that dire consequences will necessarily befall the student...
...which trouble those in the process of growing up have been magically abolished (Salinger is said to complain that his true audience is too small to reach his books on the shelves). The Glass children have no need to do anything better than mother or father; they just are superior. Father Les ("Less") is a midget personage when compared with any of his offspring. Mother Bessie is a slightly comic sergeant major to her own young, all of whom have spiritual commissions. In the magic Glass family, the kids, like the stars of a radio quiz show, have taken over...
...Suffolk Superior Court jury has acquitted folksinger Jackie Washington on a charge of assault and battery of a police officer. The jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday after a three-day trial, and its sealed verdict was opened and read yesterday morning by Judge Robert A. Welsh...