Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakest spot in American culture today is an almost total lack of true creative thinking. We have become a nation of improvers, adjusters, takers-apart, putters-together, dissectors, bisectors, inspectors, assemblers and reassemblers. The average American proudly thumps his breast, pointing with complacency to our vast quantity of technologically "superior" wealth. Where are the minds to match the intellectual curiosity of Edison, Marconi, Alexander Bell, Henry Ford or the Wright brothers...
...influence that is often confused with views he does not represent. In Nehru's name it is argued that Asians possess a spirituality of nature that is superior to Western materialism. But Nehru himself, admired as he is by many Hindus and Buddhists, holds to no spiritual beliefs, and only last week in West Germany said: "As for myself, I believe in no religion or dogma or faith." He berates the world for its use of force, but he holds Kashmir by force; he talks of the rights of people, but he denies Kashmir a plebiscite; he resents...
...state of grace" because all nuns do is pray all day, the angel agrees to change places with her new charge, Sister Angelica, to show her how simple a nun's life really can be. In no time the angel is in hot water with the mother superior for her angelic frankness. When Sister Angelica tells her to stop it, the angel complains: "Do you mean I cannot tell the truth in a convent?" No, says the sister. "Use mental reservation ... a gimmick invented by the Jesuits. Tell as much of the truth as you think advisable, and mentally...
Young Lew wasted little time, tried from the opening rally to rub his superior power like rough sandpaper against Ken Rosewall's subtler game. The two whacked out some of the best tennis of the tournament. Then Lew Hoad, after a brief, second-set lapse, put Rosewall away, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Australian visitors were hap py to underplay their pride. " I flew over 5,000 miles to see this match," laughed one fan from Down Under, "and what do I watch? The same players I see in my backyard all year long." Through...
Last week, as the lovers waited together for the verdict of guilty, and the pronouncement of sentence-life for her, 20 years for him-a superior smile still played over Jacques' lips. "Certain monsters," he mused in satisfaction, "are sacred because often the same qualities are found in a monster and in a saint...