Word: outranks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says that man himself is obsolete; this is what Samuel Beckett and others are trying to show us on a stage where no responses are predictable or congenial; this is what Mr. Henry Miller is explaining at length in works where visions of love and feasts of sexuality outrank and displace all other concerns...The only acceptable art is the art of Unconsciousness, of Accident, of No-Meaning...
...almost as much a part of a horseman's way of life as racing or breeding or hunting. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the golden age of such art, painter after painter recorded England's placid world of privilege, where the horses often seemed to outrank the people. But of all the painters, none ever matched the horses of George Stubbs (see color...
...charter, Latin America's most drastic land-reform law, authorizes the expropriation, for 20-year 4½% Peso bonds, of all land holdings greater than 995 acres, except sugar, rice or cattle farms, which may be as big as 3,316 acres. In practice, INRA agents, who outrank even rebel army officers, have seized whatever farms they pleased regardless of size, and no bonds for payment of the farms have yet been printed...