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...which 50 years ago were little more than a set for a western-a street, some bars, horses and cowboys-now have museums far superior to those in Amiens or Pisa." At the same time, the big museums, such as Manhattan's Metropolitan, "are just about to surpass definitively the great museums of Europe, just as the small ones surpassed their European counterparts a long time...
...expect he will surpass his previous show ing. I am sure that when we meet again in Rome we shall be good friends." Just Poof. Kuznetsov, Johnson, Yang and a husky long shot from Oregon named Dave Edstrom (best score: 8,176) will likely turn the decathlon competition in Rome into the tensest in history. "It's only going to take one bad event to bump a guy right out of a gold medal," says Coach Drake. "A bad start in the sprints, a puff of wind at the wrong time in the high jump or pole vault...
Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...Nixon has said that there is no chance that the Soviet economy will surpass that of the U.S. during this century. Small as the chance may be, it is obviously inaccurate to say that there is "no chance." The statement may have been intended merely as a placebo, regardless of truth, for the American public and thus as an aid to Mr. Nixon's political aspirations, or it may accurately represent his belief. In either case Mr. Nixon's election would be unwise, as the denial of such a threat can only serve to increase its magnitude...
...twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra-ecstatic, apocalyptic, hortatory, an exclamation-marked salute to man's destiny...