Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 6] stems not so much from the lack of good plays and good authors as from the growing influence of our noted theater critics, that small and parasitic group of men who feel it is their sacred duty to protect the theatergoer from being exposed to anything but superior spectacles on the legitimate stage . . . I have often wondered why our plays should be so meticulously hand-picked by a small group of intellectual supermen. Through individual tastes we choose our food and manage to survive, and even though not all of us are gourmets, we enjoy eating...
...questions were an invasion of his personal rights, he refused to answer both questions, except to say that in neither case did he advocate anything subversive as defined in the Act involved. The questioning then began to bear down on what was Sweezy going to speak about. The Superior Court judge ordered Sweezy to answer, ruling that the Attorney General is entitled to inquire into the actual content of any lecture given in any school. Sweezy refused to answer on the grounds of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. The Fifth Amendment...
Nova explained that in the bewildering aftermath of the fight he had not read what the sportswriters had written about him. It was just as well, remarked Superior Court Judge Newcomb Condee, because "if Mr. Flaherty had written his column the day after the fight, Mr. Nova would have had to sue a thousand writers." Nova freely admitted that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record...
...some honor attached to it. Words fail me to express my dismay and disgust at such hypocrisy. Has Harriman so quickly forgotten what happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. when he lost his liberal support by playing up to its enemies? As for Adlai. he is intellectually far superior to any other candidate, but the reiteration of his uncertainty concerning his plans reminds me too much of the hit song Jenny. Jenny had no difficulty making up her mind-with unexpectedly dramatic circumstances...
...output divided equally between the Province of Ontario and New York state. Elsewhere along the waterway, dredging and modernization of existing locks and canals will be done so that a minimum 27-ft. channel will eventually run all the way from the Atlantic to the western tip of Lake Superior. When it is ready, 75% of the world's ships-all but the biggest ocean liners-can sail to the center of the continent...