Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brand of inspirational leadership. "You think of what a psychiatrist does or how a good father brings up a child," he says. "If a salesman does something terrible, we convince him that under normal circumstances he would never have done that, that he's a much finer person than that...
...mental hospitals. She is also a mystical speaker of truth whose hallucinations are eerily accurate. She hears voices, consults cards, studies astrological charts. She and Martha sit down and reread the classics with "openings in their brains. What they searched for was everywhere, all around them, like a finer air shimmering in the flat air of every...
Though the housing convention's resolutions were aimed in all directions, much of the anger expressed at the meeting flew straight toward the universities. In one of his finer moments. Harvard's old nemesis, City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci of East Cambridge, called not only for low-income housing, but also for a program which would "send Harvard and M.I.T. packing across the river." Through the members of the audience were tired after hours of such speech making, they roused themselves, and gave Vellucci thunderous applause...
...reconstructing society, the classics must not be forgotten. It is in humanizing, in leavening human society that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a 'reckless' materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society...
...fills the corridors of his courthouse. Judge Burger is also something of a gourmet. He sometimes runs his wife out of the kitchen in order to experiment with an elaborate recipe a la Julia Child, and he is a connoisseur of wines-particularly the better red Burgundies and the finer clarets. He is even a Chevalier du Tastevin, something undreamed of in the philosophy of Horatio Alger...