Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs to say it is easy living at Harvard. No one need declare that social isolation necessarily makes students here smarter, stronger or more compassionate. But even assuming that such isolation is endemic here, is it so patently false to believe that independence--intellectual and social--contributes to a sensibility that helps one meet the severest challenges, like those of private conscience...
...wonderfully natural and unpretentious actor, may be the only star capable of holding his own against this competition, even stealing a scene or two from his furry friend. In the end, Turner tames Hooch down, Hooch loosens Turner up, and this little nothing of a movie -- sweeter and smarter than it has a right to be -- may cheer you on through the, uh, dog days...
CLEARLY, the plan does not correspond to the reality. We are now left with the disturbing question of whether Israeli intelligence is completely unrealistic or smarter than we think...
...group that perpetuates this stereotype most, the media, is also the group most likely to deny its existence. When asked about their tendency to call white players smarter and Black players better athletes, several prominent broadcasters, almost all of them white, point to specific cases where the stereotype is true--cases where the Black is the better natural athlete--and insist that they are color-blind when they call the games...
...each quote would seem inoffensive. But by juxtaposing them against each other Hoose shows how a painful stereotype is perpetuated; each comment subtly--and presumably unintentionally--conveys a message that Blacks are gifted with greater athletic ability and can be lazy about developing their talents, while whites, who are smarter, have to work harder to improve. It is the same distinction that is used when people compare Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, Pete Rose and Willie Mays...