Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems to him the irrelevance of his activities, has dropped out of school a few weeks before he is due to graduate; soon thereafter he is dropping out of life as well, cultishly convinced that he and his psychedelic set are superior because they have Seen and they Know...
...plaintiff in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles was Director George Stevens; the defendant, the National Broadcasting Co. The charge: "Rape of a creative effort." That's what Stevens had called it, anyhow. The "effort" was his memorable 1951 six-Oscar picture, A Place in the Sun. NBC bought the TV rights to the film from Paramount for $300,000, put it on nationwide TV last March, and Stevens protested that it was mutilated by the insertion of no fewer than 42 commercials...
...woodwinds sections. The short-windedness has since been cured by luring foreign talent-for example, Trombonist Ray Parnes from the Pittsburgh Symphony-with guarantees of rent-free $30,000 homes. Now, says Mehta, "the Israel Philharmonic stands up with the best in Europe, and in the strings it is superior to most orchestras in the U.S. It has virtuosity and temperament...
...Coop's plans were all wrong, Dietz argued before the Cambridge City Council, the Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeals, Governor Endicott Peabody '42 (an old football friend), and a Massachusetts Superior Court. There was no reason, he said, to accept the assurances of Coop directors--some of them Harvard officials -- that their plans were the best possible. "Intelligence in one particular field," he wrote at the time, "is not generally transferable...
Guests' rooms all have color TV, room-wide balconies that are 6 ft. deep, built-in bars with ice machines, and electric blankets; they cost $16 to $21 a day for single occupancy, while penthouse suites run up to $150. To capitalize on its superior location-much closer to the airport than its downtown competitors-Century Plaza offers extensive meeting-room facilities. For corporate guests, the hotel has nine board rooms, each with an adjoining private dining room on the mezzanine floor; for conventioneers, there is the immense, 24,000-sq.-ft. Los Angeles Ballroom buried two floors under...