Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening night, I wonder if that is any excuse in a professional company for the inordinate number of missed cues, dropped lines, and fumbled props. The one bright note was the new translation by the Harvard Graduate School's own Kenneth Tigar and Clayton Koelb, which sounded superior in many ways to the old Bentley version...
After the match DeKoff called the Crimson a "good little team," and said t the major difference between the two teams was Columbia's superior self-confidence...
...Ratio. By the end of 1966, U.S. strength is expected to reach 400,000-nearly as big an army as the French had in all Indo-China, and with infinitely superior equipment. Buoyed by the U.S. effort, South Viet Nam is simultaneously strengthening its armed forces by 10,000 men a month, should muster 750,000 fighting men by the end of 1966. The Communists in turn are increasing their 250,000-man first-line force by up to 7,000 a month-4,500 by infiltration from the North, the rest by forced drafts in Viet Cong-controlled villages...
...Roman Catholic clergy has certain military parallels. A priest, having taken the vow of obedience, can be moved from place to place at his superior's will. For many, such shifting around means only a creative variety of duty. But for others, just as for some soldiers, transfer implies punishment, or at least temporary removal of an inconvenience. Giving no reasons, bishops or religious superiors can move a priest or fire a professor who has done nothing more than exercise what others would call his constitutional right of free speech...
...have been hooked and held by pseudonymous Author John le Carré's downbeat spy thriller, which scores espionage as a grubby, ulcer-making career at best. The movie version is a masterwork in a minor key. Avoiding formula excitement, Producer-Director Martin Ritt (Hud) achieves something far superior-a climate of still, absolute insecurity that conveys menace mainly through undertones. And Richard Burton, playing the chief pawn in an involuted cold-war plot, will be measured from now on against his full, corrosive performance here. To have read le Carré can only heighten one's relish...