Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crile doesn't publish by himself. Crile has me to deal with. He has his associate producer to deal with. He has his superior editors to deal with. He's got to prove every fact that's in that broadcast. The fact of the matter is, that when push came to prove in that courtroom under oath, it turned out that every fact in that broadcast was accurate...
HOWEVER, THROUGHOUT THEIR conversations, Sartre maintains a distance. Not only is he the "I" the constant focus of the conversation, but he removes himself as superior. At one point, he portrays himself as superior. At one point, he portrays himself as a teacher figure for his companions: "I amuse myself by teaching them freedom. So that my speeches, at first purely negative and referring to a shared morality, become positive indoctrinations." He is at once with his comrades and above them, companion and teacher...
Once admitted to Harvard, students were expected to treat administrative gurus with reverence befitting "their parents," Schollars could not speak in the presence of the president, tutors, fellows or other superior types, and no "disorderly gainsaying" was permitted. Anyone chanting "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg," could also expect strict censure, especially if he forgot to translate it into Latin...
...ideal society, a society defined by America. Along with missionary ideology. Baritz describes an American confidence based on technology. Our belief, fortified by technique, makes us strong, but our machines make us invincible. "As Hiroshima demonstrated conclusively, we could think of ourselves not only as morally superior, but as the most powerful nation in history." Americans did not conceive that it was possible for this country to lose a war against anyone, certainly not poor, ignorant peasants...
...most successful campaigns in the history of commerce, making its consumer products household names throughout the developed world. But American and European salesmen of everything from meat to microchips have complained for years that Japanese markets have been closed to them, even when they offered products superior to those produced locally. That was an annoyance when Japan was struggling to recover economically in the early postwar years. Today, when Japan is on the verge of surpassing the Soviet Union as the world's second-largest economy, its protectionist tendencies seem inappropriate. "Japan is a mature, developed country," says an Administration...