Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children, bright and dull, in the same comprehensive schools (this, very roughly, is what the Labor Party currently proposes). Clearly, this plan was too American, writes Young: "Americans, far from prizing brainpower, despised it . . . In the continent of the common man, they established common schools which recognized no child superior to another." Another kind of education was necessary for Britain; "Englishmen of the solid centre never believed in equality. They assumed that some men were better than others, and only waited to be told in what respect...
Herbert C. Kantor, assistant United States Attorney, stated that Soble had been Zborowski's superior in the spy ring. Kantor said Soble would testify that he had had 50 meetings with the defendant and that Zborowski had given him information to be transmitted to the Soviet Union...
...them by their employers as having 1) intensive drive, 2) profound inclination to compete, 3) persistent desire for recognition and advancement, 4) continuous involvement in multiple and diverse functions subject to time restrictions (i.e., deadlines), 5) habitual compulsion to speed up all their physical and mental functions, and 6) superior mental and physical alertness. For comparison they took an equal number of men of the same ages and physical types, but with the opposite personality type-little drive or desire to compete...
With a scholar's pride former Dean Lawrence Chamberlain of Columbia College listed his school's most serious purpose: to assure "a small but steady flow of superior young men into our graduate schools." Then, in his final report to Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, released last week, Teacher Chamberlain, 52, detailed two courses that the college might follow in the next decade: 1) to aim for continuity, preserve in the college the same standards and values it has now; 2) to stiffen entrance requirements drastically, and insist that incoming freshmen possess much of the knowledge that...
...many cases, e.g., The Key, Desire Under the Elms, defiance of the code has produced superior films that would have been flattened under rigid adherence to the rules. Says Luigi Luraschi, Paramount's agent in charge of code compliance: "Once upon a time the movies had a tendency to leer at sex. I think perhaps the first inkling was in the good foreign pictures shown here that handled sex rather forthrightly but still in good taste. American producers began to see the light...