Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find it all too easy to sell to the domestic market. When it comes to competing abroad, noted The Economist, "the British nowadays have an old fogy's habit of treating the sometimes brash, brassy and rather fanatical export drives of some of their main competitors as a superior sort of a joke...
...lecture, James reminded his listeners: "What [democracy's] critics now affirm is that its preferences are inveterately for the inferior . . . Vulgarity enthroned and institutionalized, elbowing everything superior from the highway, this, they tell us, is our irremediable destiny; and the picture-papers of the European Continent are already drawing Uncle Sam with the hog instead of the eagle for his heraldic emblem...
...educators dispute the quality of Soviet training in such fields. American education is superior, they argue, because it is free of the rote learning, Marxian indoctrination and pressure for applied research that characterizes Soviet schooling. Yet the U.S. is short of engineers, physicians and teachers-and Russia is not. Concludes DeWitt, noting that Russia now spends as much on education as the U.S., though it is less than half as wealthy: "We will have to do much more for the betterment of our own education before it is too late...
...first two productions of the Tufts season were far superior to the present program. As its first production, Tufts staged an adaptation of "Our American Cousin", the play at which Lincoln was shot. Lowell Swortzell's adaptation has as one of its main character the watchman at the Ford Theater. This character serves as a narrator, describing the events that took place on the day that Lincoln was shot. Within this framework "Our American Cousin" was presented as a series of flashbacks to the performance and a rehearsal allegedly held earlier in the day. In the midst of this historical...
...military disparity [between Russia and the U.S.]. Of course, the pessimistic school concedes this and talks only of the future with its 'missile gap,' etc. I shall yield them this much: If the day in fact came when the Russians had a clear-cut, visible, undoubtable military superiority, including the capacity to wipe out our deterrent with a surprise attack, there would be reason to worry. It seems to me that with every development-the Polaris submarine being the best current example-the chances of such a decisive superiority become less. In any case, it is quite clear...