Word: superiority
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...audience. The way he encourages (or at least permits) his actors to improvise makes him a beloved figure to them, and permits his more impressionable viewers to feel they are in the presence of profundity - the chaos of the universe sourly presented by a director who is both superior to and malignant about the stupes he's asking us to study...
...such as myself, wrapped in our Harvard mantles and so full of ourselves, only the remove of years would eventually reveal the manipulative secret of the program; pumping up the egos was a way to get us to work incredibly hard. In the midst of it we felt openly superior to nearly everyone, especially the medical people, whose carefully formed opinions on subtler issues were, admittedly, not always very helpful in the emergency of a code...
...equally large percentage do not know the difference between a Junior Fellow and a University Professor. It is easy for a student merely to let himself drift here because of one great distinction that separates the University from the average American institution. Harvard is designed to speed ahead the superior student, not to herd on the average one. There is a tremendous difference between the honors and non-honors programs. The man who wants expert advice and individual attention to his academic problems can get all he needs if he is willing to work for it. And conversely...
...Anderson said. “We’re both from overseas, we’re both foreign, and we have games that complement each other. Elsa’s really aggressive up at the net, and I’m good at playing back.” The superior season of the twin captains began in the fall, when Anderson and O’Riain captured the doubles title at the Cissie Leary Memorial Tournament. After falling to the nation’s No. 1 doubles team at the Riviera ITA All-American Championships, the pair won the Wilson/ITA...
...said was Israel’s strong human rights record compared to other nations. “In a world with so many human rights violators—China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, etc.—the singling out of Israel, whose human rights record is far superior to those of most countries, is a destructive act of bigotry directed at the Jewish state because it is the Jewish state.” But Matory took issue with the idea that critics of Israel were not motivated by a concern for human rights. “It?...