Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burroughs Corp. prefers to teach executives in its own way rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just to get on the bandwagon. And many rightly fear that their bright young men will be lured away by corporate talent scouts lurking in the university halls...
September. Harvard's psychiatric staff is called in by coach Yovicsin to bolster the morale of the new members of the football team. Dr. Farnsworth will make a public statement, "The basic problem with these young men seems to be that they feel inferior. They are not inferior, of course, simply dislocated." The Admissions Board will make an immediate counter statement, "There is a definite place in Harvard College for these young men. Of course, we prefer to keep them out of Eliot House...
Miss Wright is, however, a competent story-teller. Her fantasies, "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" and "The Quest of Lady Mondegreen," are imaginative and sophisticated. While inferior to Thurber's fairy tales, they are silly enough to be charming...
Reaction to the change was mixed. A few die-hard editors foresaw the doom of college journalism. "A woman's place is in the home," commented Managing Editor George H. Watson, Jr. '58. "The female is innately inferior," added Sports Editor Richard T. Cooper...
Back to Buying. Knopf admits that the grievous inadequacy of authors, booksellers and critics does not excuse publishers for "producing the large volume of trivial, unimportant, inferior and downright unworthy stuff we do." He roasts his colleagues for handing out contracts to hopefuls who have never written novels and, worse still, for printing the results. Standards are so low, he complains, that no one "can say to any author, 'Your book is so bad that it can't be published,' because the author is just as likely as not to go down the street and sell...