Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy plays and to the personal and school rivalries that debators and athletes have in common. While some would consider it sacrilege to treat moral and political issues as exercises in thought and expression, today's generation of debators considers itself involved in a virtuous and, indeed, superior pastime...
...distinctly asked for a demitasse. You've given me a large cup," he is coldly instructed: "Just drink a little." Finally, here is Chick Swallow, balding and growing a pot, writing: "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds-they mature slowly." And Nickie, dreamer of superior dreams, goes his melancholy way from a failure as a rookie policeman to driver for the Tidy Didy diaper service...
...whole, the gentlemen were less outstanding; they also had harder things to do. Fortmiller, as Ulysses, handled the show's largest part with a competence which was almost impressive--but not quite. Dean Gitter's Menelaus was amusingly smooth and sneaky, and because of superior singing talent came across to the audience somewhat better than Andre Gregory's Hector Charybdis. Nevertheless, the two hit it off well in the dance duet, "Scylla and Charibdis," and Gregory made his part well worth everyone's while in "Hector's Song," which he executued with great chic. Harold Scott made a remarkably good...
Needless to say, the "Threepenny" was a "smashing success" and sold out for five straight nights, the last one being added to meet an overwhelming demand. Aaron believes that this showed other House groups that performances of superior quality could be achieved in House Dining Halls, and could prove both financially and artistically successful...
...success is that analyst and analysand shall agree on the outcome. Naturally, the analyst is biased, and the patient may be the victim of the Freudian mechanism of wish fulfill ment. It is useless to go by the opinions of unbelievers, because most of the unanalyzed tend to feel superior to those who have succumbed sufficiently to life's stresses to pay heavily to go to a "talking doctor," "head-shrinker," or "witch doctor," and have their "heads candled." On the other hand, it is all but impossible to argue with an orthodox Freudian (as with an adherent...