Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enviable Record. A realist, Baggs recognizes the uphill odds he faces against the Herald. "That big thing down the street,'' says he, "is a good newspaper." It is. Its Latin American coverage is superior to the News's, which gets along mostly on the hunches and the contacts of Latin American Editor Hal Hendrix, who almost never leaves Miami. In contrast, the Herald regularly sends men south of the border, often in teams, has a Latin American circulation (at $1 per airmailed copy) of nearly 5,000 that goes as far south as Chile. Although not quite...
Griffin's comment on this advertisement may be obvious, but it is worth recording. "In these matters the Negro has seen the backside of the white man too long to be shocked. He feels an indulgent superiority whenever he sees these evidences of the white man's frailty. This is one of the sources of his chafing at being considered inferior. He cannot understand how the white man can show him the most demeaning aspects of his nature and at the same time delude himself into thinking that he is inherently superior...
...Greeks, Schrade said, wisely bound together their ideas of tragedy and fate, for in the end "nothing short of sophistry will keep them apart as different entities." Tragedy needs "a superior, divine force, fate." The presence of this tragic greatness, he added, has been huffled today by "trifles". Modern music is "more deeply marked by the spirit of the tragic than we are willing to admit...
Vere's only course, under the Articles of War, is to court-martial Billy Budd for killing a superior officer. And the only penalty prescribed by the articles is death. "We don't deal with justice here, but with the law," Vere finally persuades a member of the drumhead court. And the court knows of no way to save Billy Budd, makes the soul-wrenching decision that he must hang. Next morning, as the rope tightens around his neck, Billy cries in a clear voice: "God bless Captain Vere...
...British major given up for lost behind enemy lines reappeared with an enemy halftrack in tow, plus an 88-mm. gun and a dozen prisoners. A fiery British commando lieutenant colonel named Jack Churchill,* waving a sword in one hand, took 30 prisoners singlehanded. When an admiring if puzzled superior asked why the sword, Churchill replied: "In my opinion, any officer who goes into action without a sword is improperly dressed...