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While this is true, it misses the most interesting aspect of that very bad book: Viewed solely on the technical merits, The Bell Curve is no worse than many more reputable examples of social science research.
Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).
As I show in my book Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes (University of Chicago Press, 1994), these examples are representative of a wide range of accidents and near misses in which language misunderstandings or omissions have played a contributing and sometimes central role.
36; on the low end, women’s and misses’ blouses and skirts (SIC 2331) averaged $7.
Arguing which schools should keep the huge revenues generated by athletes really misses the point.
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