Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think the program is definitely superior to what it was last year because of the guidance," prefect veteran Isabella E. Fu '88 of Lowell House said. "Last year we didn't have too many meetings, and we weren't introduced to our prefect units until two weeks into the semester...
...still consider the fact that I did not die to be a miracle, meaning that some kind of providence intervened. For me, it took the form of a friendly superior at work who confronted me. I finally broke down and admitted that I needed help. That simple admission, so long in coming, brought an enormous release. Suddenly, alcoholism was no longer something I had to endure in private. Somehow, in that encounter, a powerful psychosis dissolved...
...also aware of two agreeable things about Hughes. The first is that he has a nice, easy gift for unforced farce (see Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The other is that his teen romances (see Pretty in Pink) have always insisted that the American underclass is actually superior to its middle-class betters in worldly wisdom and moral acuity. Both his comic virtue and his social vision are on pleasant display here...
Michael J. Arlen '52, a writer for The New Yorker magazine, declared after considerable thought, "I think Harvard will probably win based on their greater capacity for abstract thought and superior personal hygiene, unless, of course, The Game is played indoors on ice, in which case any good Canadian team is bound to triumph...
Last week the tug-of-war came to an end. San Diego Superior Court Judge Judith McConnell bowed to Brian's wishes and left him in the "stable and wholesome environment" provided by Corbett. Betty Lou Batey stormed out in the middle of the hearing, but will not challenge the decision. Said she: "All I can say is that I believe in the ultimate judge...