Word: superiority
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your Aug. 26 TV & Radio section, you reviewed with great cordiality Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues and quoted from what was obviously a superior script. However, there was no mention of the author, and it read as though [Actor] Elliott Nugent had made up the lines as he was going along. The author's name: Helen Cotton...
...famed for their singing), then briskly moved to a large, barnlike room and took their seats on plain wooden benches facing writing desks. From a raised table they were greeted-in Latin, the order's normal business language -by alabaster-pale, 67-year-old Jean-Baptiste Janssens, 27th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, also known (like his predecessors) as "the Black Pope...
...Whether his eye is fixed on a plant or a planet, a chemical retort or a dialectical retort to Communist propaganda, every Jesuit everywhere owes his unswerving obedience to his tactful, affable and unassuming Superior General. Belgian-born Jesuit Janssens wryly credits his painstaking, lifelong concern for accuracy to the fact that his father was a tax collector. A precocious youngster, young Janssens was first in his class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took...
...Superior General, Father Janssens has never allowed intermittent bouts with asthma and high blood pressure to keep him from his order's austere regimen. His day begins at 5:30 a.m., with Mass, meditation and thanksgiving (by the rule of St. Ignatius, every Jesuit must spend four hours a day in prayer). By 9:15, with his iron bedstead curtained off, he transforms his bedroom into a study and tackles the day's work, sitting on a straight-backed chair behind a large wooden desk (another straight-backed chair for visitors and three shelves of books complete...
Furthermore. In Chiapa, Mexico, the superior court sentenced Roberto Aguilar to 20 years for killing his father, directed that he be "admonished and reprehended so he will not do it again...