Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some of these things are done, an atmosphere of some bounce and energy may creep into the offensively superior blandness of Westminster, and if the Common Market alone can bring Britain to understand its post-war role more clearly, full membership will be worth some Commonwealth hostility...
...that the American educational system and community encourage widespread intellectual apathy. From first grade through college, the successful student is the one who can "psych out the teacher or exam," in Alpert's opinion. The student is guided not by curiosity or intellectual motivation, but by desire for a superior grade...
Write Me a Murder (by Frederick Knott) gives away its murderer (James Donald) in Act I without defrosting any of its suspense as a superior spine-chiller. British Playwright Knott, of Dial "M" for Murder fame, has worked a twist on the conventional whodunit by fashioning a will...
...name of the grape from which it is made, so that buyers can approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay, for example, is related to a Pouilly-Fuissé or a Chablis, white Riesling to a dry Rhine, Sauvignon Blanc to a superior dry Graves; in the reds. Cabernet Sauvignon is like red Bordeaux, Pinot Noir like lesser Burgundy, Camay Beaujolais similar to the French Beaujolais...
Unhappily, such moments of magic come infrequently. Imitator Lowell can quite rightly feel superior to most translators-he calls them "taxidermists" and their poems "stuffed birds." But taken entire, Imitations suffers from a certain staleness, the staleness of rebreathed...