Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constant critic. A foe of all forms of cant and pomp, he carries on a love-hate affair with his home town. He writes tenderly of its ethnic neighborhoods, its traditions and folkways; he fires at will at its politicians and their pretensions. When public officials raced to outdo each other issuing outraged statements after an attempted gangland killing, Royko sadly noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot or blown up," he wrote, "it is almost as good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder...
...slipped from 11% of the filter market in 1958 to 5.9%, while the company's overall sales have gone from 1963's record $521 million to last year's $479 million. In both its Kent and Newport brands, Lorillard is pretty certain that it can outdo the field in low nicotine and tar content...
...causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...added the art of the book-jacket....To stand by any book-stall or to enter any book-shop is to witness a terrific scene of Internecine warfare between the Innumerable latest volumes, almost all of them violently vying with one another for one's attention, fiercely striving to outdo the rest in crudity of design and of colour. It is rather like visiting the parrot-house in the Zoological Gardens, save that there one can at least stop one's ears with one's fingers, whereas here one merely wants to shut one's eyes." Sir Max Beerbohm...
Like Saint Joan, it is a play about Catholicism and heresy, among other things. Could it be that the theme of religious faith inspired him to outdo himself? It is undeniable that, over the years, this theme has stimulated playwrights to remarkable and frequently their best work-from Prometheus Bound, Antigone and The Bacchae through Tartuffe, Athalie, Faust and Brand to Easter, Partage de Midi, Murder in the Cathedral, Galileo, Billy Budd, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Waiting for Godot...