Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopefully McGovern's speech will encourage a detailed and critical review of the proposed defense budget. If Defense Secretary McNamara's statements about the super-abundance of nuclear weapons possessed by this country are correct, the Defense department will have to present some highly compelling arguments for additional bomb purchases. McGovern approached his subject with a rich storehouse of knowledge, and his remarks displayed a careful study of the present military and economic structure of the United States. His conclusions cannot be easily dismissed...
...Sheriff ambled back to the stand. He couldn't remember how he had leaned into the car and refused to identify a photograph of a 61 Olds Super 88 as his car. The State attorney, Gardner, tried to have the Sheriff read from a deposition, but Johnson, with his fifth grade education, stumbled to an embarrassed halt...
...gentleness of Dublin may be part of the reason why Professor Donoghue finds so much meaning in ordinary human experience and resents the "super sophistication and concern for extreme" to be found in some of the works of T.S. Eliot and other modernists. These poets assume a heretical, "non-Christian" attitude and imply that the common man and ordinary human experience are meaningless. Donoghue feels that man should be respected for what he is. "There is no need to canonize an ordinary person as this "gives short shrift to the value of human life...
Despite the numerous chances for disaster in an All Star clash, such as the lack of team co-ordination, personal friction, and super-eagerness on the part of the younger men, the game does have a magical attraction, making it hard for a fan to keep away from the television set. With all that high priced talent around, there are bound to be fireworks of one sort or another...
Sixty years ago, when this play was written, it may have been shockingly avant garde and super-sophisticated be divorced and to consider marriage a game--to be played with several players. Contemporary society takes a somewhat different view of divorce: it is neither shocked nor girlishly intrigued; it accepts it along with other unpleasant aspects of life. Scrampled Couples, therefore, is not a game with great comical appeal to the modern playgoer. The Idea is a bit stale...