Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both run separately through the screenplay until they converge in the fatal conclusion. Brando, his hair bleached for the occasion, plays a sensitive German lieutenant who hates killing, but justifies it as the only way to bring lasting peace to Europe. He resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert...
...philosophized about Harvard. So did Author John Marquand ('15): "If you have ever been to Harvard, you will never be allowed to forget it. I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover this error in my past." Wearily superior. Music Man Leonard Bernstein ('39) recited...
...Road, 1.800 ft. away, Walsh took his position in a faded blue Air Force communications van. With him was President Eisenhower's Naval Aide E. P. (Pete) Aurand and a handful of Vanguard men. Paul Walsh had a phone line hooked to the Washington office of his immediate superior, Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard. The same line was connected to telephones manned in the White House by Press Secretary James Hagerty and Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster, ready to pass the word to Ike. "T minus ten," said Walsh. "Clear sky on launching complex . . . Minitrack clear." Pete...
According to Baudelaire's definition of a superior man-"He is not a specialist" -Robert Graves is distinctly superior. He has strongly held, closely reasoned, occasionally absurd opinions on everything under the sun and-considering his longstanding infatuation with the lunar White Goddess-on everything under the moon too. Not the least fascinating thing about this book is his delight in the sound of his own voice, whether he writes about the Whitaker Negroes,* a child peer of England, Saint Paul, E. E. Cummings, U.S. education, nightmares or poetry...
...course of debate on compulsory non-honors tutorial, King K. Holmes '59 questioned the balance the Council was striking between its deliberative and representative functions. "We aren't superior beings," he declared, and expressed his belief that the group should mirror student opinion...