Word: inferiore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning his own collection over to the gallery, Mellon urged that it be used as a criterion for further acquisitions in order "to prevent the introduction ... of inferior works of art." To assure a continuing high standard, he set up a self-perpetuating board of trustees which examines all gift horses with a dentist's doubtful eye. Since Mellon's death in 1937, vast bequests from Samuel Kress and Joseph Widener (old masters), Lessing Rosenwald (prints and drawings) and Chester Dale (old masters and modern French paintings) have swelled the collection. It now numbers 1,721 paintings...
Temper Tantrums. Possibly the biggest disappointment of the new season is the failure of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca to produce even a fraction of the fun separately that they did together in years past as co-stars of Your Show of Shows. Imogene seems hopelessly bogged down in inferior material. Caesar has been saddled with a story line that succeeds in making him a good deal more cantankerous than comic. Perhaps unconsciously, his show appears designed as a replay of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners on a considerably higher income level. Caesar's continuing sketch, The Commuters...
...standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...
...because of the mass-production techniques, trade school concepts of education, and inferior quality of instruction, the leading private schools-the "prestige schools"-will offer increasingly attractive prospects to increasing numbers...
...would be a misconception, however, to assume that merely because New Haven is smaller than Boston that the medical facilities open to Yale are automatically inferior to those of Harvard. Grace-New Haven Community Hospital...