Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he boggled at the unusual bequest, Superior Court Probate Judge Robert L. Myers of Phoenix ruled that the will was legitimate, ordered a hearing to find out whether anyone could properly qualify to carry out Kidd's wish. Last week, as the trial got under way in Phoenix, it was apparent that there was no lack of soul-searchers eager to undertake the task. No fewer than 17 organizations and 78 individuals had already put up the $15 filing fee and were prepared to stake their claims. Among them...
...What Bishop Gorman has done," said the Rev. Robert Matheny of Richardson's First Christian Church, "is like a football team that has driven all the way down the field, has a first down and goal to go on the five-yard line, and punts." The Paulists' superior general, the Very Rev. John F. Fitzgerald, called the bishop's explanation "not sufficient for such a drastic action...
...never once attacked. Convinced that the killer image of the shark, as well as that of other animals, was based on fear and prejudice, Tors became a full-time student of animal nature, plunged into his first feature-length nature film in 1962 with Flipper. "Dolphins," he says, "are superior to human beings in every...
...member put it, is as much Club as it is Glee; or of WHRBies who walk around wearing "Mozart Forever," and "Back to Bach" buttons but who never deign to attend concerts, in the apparent belief that music produced by plastic discs and dials and buttons is superior to that of live performers...
...action." Most SDSers, they observed, still accept the notion that "getting a majority of people to vote for something creates a force for change"; that the United States will criminate poverty without radically changing, and that the country cannot lose the war in Vietnam if it employs its superior military power. "In a very real way," they note, "rhetoric without content breeds the politics of despair and nihilism. The slogans we use acutely heighten our sense of distance and radical alienation ... the failure of these slogans to specify any content also heightens our sense of desperateness and impotence...