Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University College is experiencing an upsurge of interest in the dramatic arts, and its newly-built campus theatre has facilities far superior to those provided at Harvard. Recent productions include HMS Pinafore, Shaw's Gentle People, and Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute. The director, a young and, not unexpectedly, bearded Englishman, felt satisfied with the calibre of the performers, but voiced the eternal plaint of the director in every land: his major problem was simply to remain solvent...
...backstop to the Atlas ICBM, which is a surface or "soft-base" missile, the Titan program began with a one-year handicap, has since lost ground as the lion's share of money, engineers and steam poured into Atlas. But Titan shows signs of becoming a system with superior potential range, invincibility and kill...
...sort to let an anniversary pass unnoticed. Last week, at the "suggestion" of the government, Madrid's newspapers dutifully listed Franco's accomplishments (e.g., no fewer than 16 towns now bear the name Franco). "The moral qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist...
...Casey's Paycock. The consequences are not the same: where at last the Paycock lies sodden among a ruined family, Con, among a rising one, is both broken and reborn-enough Americanized to raise a glass to the plebeian Andrew Jackson. In both plays the character is superior to the action: where in Juno and the Paycock there is too much contrived melodrama for inevitable tragedy, in Poet there is too much lurking farce for great drama. In its half-dozen best scenes, A Touch of the Poet has a tense, grandly flaring quality of theater. But there...
...person who is different from most in that she rises above mediocrity, leads rather than goes along with the crowd, forms her own opinions rather than accepts others' uncritically, but has her opinions well-grounded on information and thought, not on hasty judgment or prejudice. Who is superior intellectually and morally, but doesn't rub it in in the presence of others. She is a person who has a zest for life, a drive to accomplish great things, and a sense of responsibility to others. Who is never satisfied with the shoddy, and who is always striving for improvement...