Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MATTHEW ARNOLD-LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM (578 pp.)-Vol. Ill in a ten-volume series edited by R. H. Super -University of Michigan...
This is a pity. Despite an occasional ultra-rarefied phrase, Arnold was the most trenchant critic of his century-a fact which has inspired Professor Super's mammoth scholarly edition of all his scattered works. He was also a worldly, witty man whose comments most of the time could apply to the ills of our age as well as to those...
...knew if I flew it right I couldn't miss," said durable Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 57, looking at her Lockheed TF-104G Super Starfighter the way some women look at a gift-wrapped assortment of Cochran cosmetics. To take the women's 100-kilometer closed-course record away from her archrival, Jacqueline Auriol of France, the American Jackie whipped the knife-winged jet through its paces at 1,203.94 m.p.h., erasing Auriol's 1962 record of 1,149.65 m.p.h. And last month Jackie cracked her own mark in the 15-25-kilometer straightaway dash, boosting the Starfighter...
...Redcoats come over the ridge. For a moment it looks like the realization of a Hollywood nightmare: the day the Western epic and the historical spectacular arrive for shooting on the same location. Maistiens-it is only the American Revolution as conceived by the French producers of this Super Technirama, 70-mm.-Technicolor, Copernic Cosmos (out of Maco) tableau vivant...
...Board advises the City Council to have the entire Harvard Square business district declared an urban renewal area, after which it says, Cambridge could take the Yards by right of eminent domain. Next, two blocks opposite the Treadway Motor House would be demolished to form a "super block," and the City would be ready to build. The proposed development, which the Board has tentatively named "University Plaza," might include convention and cultural centers, hotels and motels, and medical offices and research facilities. A pedestrian mall over Mt. Auburn Street would link it to Brattle Square...