Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic moral theology seems to be based on the assumption that the preservation of human life is the highest value. Catholic veneration of the martyrs, however, indicates that the preservation of personal integrity is sometimes superior to the preservation of human life. The sacrifice of life for a higher value is, in this case, seen as moral. If Catholic moral theology is to be consistent, it ought to distinguish between the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of human personality...
Dream Logic. With such details in mind, and with Burgess' assurance that Joyce was not a deliberate mystifier but "an intellectually superior writer unwilling to compromise with subject matter of great complexity," the reader is presumably in shape to cope with the first sentence of Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin...
...that the CIA would survive the or-deal. The National Student Association however, may have been damaged irrevocably. Its most important characteristic--its avowed independence--has been discredited. At past international conferences, members of the American delegation would often point out that NSA was different from--and by implication, superior to--all the other national student unions because it received no government money and was in no way under government control...
...Dandy on flute: A dapper dresser, he is as flighty as his instrument. He mischievously delights in tripping up the conductor with his superior musicianship...
...American foot soldier splurging his pay on Saigon girls, the monotony of patrols, death in a field. But as coldly treated by France's official TV network, the war has been only a misbegotten adventure carried out by a nation too naive to learn from the superior experience of a wiser country...