Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twin Oaks place a great deal of stress on "competence" in performing the various chores which must be done for the benefit of all. In this guise, the competitiveness Kinkade believes they have banished is actually resurrected; this is a new form of amour propre: the desire to outdo the other in altruism. The person who works the hardest creates the greatest amount of leisure time for everyone; each member is driven by public opinion to attain this ideal and in turn forces it upon the others, for no one wants to be the object of community disapproval or ostracism...
...that Fellini's nemesis is reality itself, finally grown bizarre enough to challenge his imagination. So he strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...
...every locality of the land. If one union demands an out-of-line increase, Dunlop and his fellow committeemen have strong grounds to talk it down. A goal of the committee is to bring order to construction's crazy-quilt negotiating patterns, in which union locals try to outdo each other in gaining ever richer contracts. In an industry that has 10,000 competing locals, Dunlop is striving to set up a union-management board that would settle labor disputes at a national level...
...seemed unlikely that anyone would try to outdo Nabokov at his own game, but Steven Millhauser, a Brown University graduate student, has given it a game try in a really promising short novel. His jokes are broader than Nabokov's and are not woven into the story with nearly the master's exquisite timing. But he is witty, and his conceit -making both the artist and his biographer small boys-is elastic enough to stretch the length of the book...
...Crimson put the ball in the air more times than any team in Harvard history, last year. With a promising new split end on the receiving side, sophomore Pat McInally, the Crimson may well outdo themselves this season. Restic effusively praised McInally, who may duplicate his record breaking year on the freshman team (eleven TD's an average of over 24 yards per catch), if his six foot six inch, 160 lb frame is not broken in half by a defensive back...