Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Boston newspapers have primly refused to print anything about it, Henry Miller's controversial Tropic of Cancer goes on trial in the Suffolk Superior Court this morning. The Massachusetts Attorney-General's office has indicated the book on charges of obscenity...
Since the first part of July, the book has been under a (Temporary) interlocutory ban throughout the state. On the request of Attorney-General Edward J. McCormack Jr., Superior Court Judge Don MacCaulay granted the temporary ban against selling, distributing, importing, and loaning the book anywhere in the state. The Judge called the book "obscene, indecent, and impure...
...forced to characterized the old College rather uncertainly, as a place which "liberated the young man from the pursuit of money, from hypocrisy, from the control of women. He could grow for a time according t o his nature, and if this growth was not guided by much superior wisdom or deep study, it was not warped by an serious perversion; and if the intellectual world did not permanently entice him... he learned that such things existed, and gathered a shrewd notion of what they could do for a man, and what they might make...
...year 220 B.C., the teachings of Lao-tse had taken root, Confucius had propounded his doctrine of the "superior man." and the artists of China had become masters of pottery, of glassware, of porcelain and jade, and of sculpture. By that year the head of the powerful state of Chin, which ruled in the west, had risen up against his neighbors and conquered the land that has borne the name of his state ever since. The conqueror styled himself Shih Huang-ti, the First Emperor -an appellation that required him to destroy the palaces, monuments and records of all previous...
Operetta may be instant opera, but Gilbert and Sullivan still demands voices. In this predominantly British company, the voices are not only superior, they are clearly intelligible. As Mabel, the perky fiancee of Frederic, the dutiful pirate's apprentice, Marion Studholme pours lyric intensity into Poor Wandering One to make it the evening's high sigh spot. As Major General Stanley, spindle-thin Eric House tackles the greatest polysyllabic scat song of the 19th century and "in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral" he is never tongue-tried. But Frederic, as played by Andrew Downie, is more arch boulevardier...