Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series by a comedian, singer, host, dancer, master of ceremonies, announcer, narrator, panelist or any person who essentially plays himself." Of the westerns, current giants of the ratings, only top-rated Gunsmoke copped an Emmy ("the best dramatic series with continuing characters"). Other winners, as often attesting popularity or superior politicking as saluting true merit...
Just take off the grille façades and goodbye to Architect Stone's architecture. The U.S. Pavilion at Brussels is weak and frivolous and is in no way superior to the Soviet ''refrigerator...
Ethically, Christians must learn to recognize in the Jews "a superior capacity for civic virtue which the Gentile majority rather flagrantly overlooks." Theologically, adds Niebuhr, Christians would do well to analyze the areas of divergence between the two faiths. He finds the differences less extreme than is generally supposed. "From the standpoint of the Christian, the doctrine of grace is the most significant distinction between Christianity and Judaism." But in the practical world, Niebuhr finds, a religion of grace does not always yield superior results: "The fact that Jews have been rather more creative than Christians in establishing brotherhood with...
...that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen is far superior to film, and distinguishable from live shows only by experts...
...satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure, and it is an art-one that flowered most richly with the late Ruth Draper. To call Joyce Grenfell a superior Draper's assistant is not faint praise...