Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese government troops. Moreover, the Communists presumably know that they cannot achieve real victory until they occupy South Viet Nam's important population centers, and to do that, they must operate as large units. Yet any such move from terrorism and guerrilla warfare would render them vulnerable to superior American and South Vietnamese firepower...
...group the private schools are academically far superior. Most offer small classes (no more than 20), imaginative teaching and tough competition. Brearley selects its girls for their academic promise rather than social prominence, approaches the excellence of such a boarding school for boys as Andover. Buckley, which has attracted generations of Roosevelts, has pioneered a new elementary reading program. The Convent of the Sacred Heart requires its first-graders to study French, memorize such poems as Blake's "Little Lamb, who made thee?", sends its older girls out on social work one afternoon weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids...
...shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra limousines, higher status. And on Cambridge Circus, another and superior division of British intelligence cynically sees the whole exercise as a chance to get rid of an inferior nuisance. "The Circus" provides only obsolete equipment and minimum cooperation. The Department men compound this by blunder after blunder. Leiser himself, who at 40 is really too old for the business, is only...
Glinting Images. Hesse's hero is obviously himself: the son of a devout and prosperous burgher who in childhood encounters a strange companion named Max Demian. Demian is a boy, but he has "the face of a man, superior and purposeful, lucid and calm, with knowing eyes. Yet the face had something feminine about it too, and was somehow a thousand years old. He was different, like an animal or a spirit or a picture, unimaginably different from the rest...
High Infidelity draws and quarters the subject of extramarital dalliance, figuratively shaking the bedclothes to uncover four zesty episodes of an Italian comedy distinguished now for lively direction, now for superior performances. Its format is a series of irregular triangles edged with homosexuality, fetishism, jealousy and greed...