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...mean to imply that this is a flawless work. There is, near the end of Act II, one abrupt and unmotivated shift in Pizarro's attitude that Shaffer failed to validate (Prescott didn't have the answer either). Also the Narrator can't seem to make up his mind whether the Spanish forces numbered...
...began as one of those flawless launches that the U.S. public has come to take for granted in the eighth year of the space age. Weather was ideal; the complex countdown proceeded without a hitch. Precisely on schedule, the reliable Atlas booster roared up from Cape Kennedy and out over the Atlantic carrying an unmanned Agena rocket as its payload. Astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford watched the action on TV as they waited for their own scheduled liftoff, 1 hr. 41 min. later, in Gemini 6, the capsule in which they would make the first attempt at rendezvous...
...calling the poetry in this edition refreshing, I have in mind particularly the verses by Chana Faerstein. Her imagery is far from flawless ("Pearly and luminous as butterflies") and its density at times approaches contrivance ("Mousing up these lion paws of mountains"), but again and again the produces quickly paced lines that are genuinely exhiliarating "The weather here is salt; I want to scrub my soul in it. Typically, her best poem, Life Goes to a Party in Chelm, is her most audecious. It skips outrageously in and out of metaphores but they are never mixed, and she finally succeeds...
...chatted in almost flawless Spanish with farmers in a corn patch outside Mexico City. In El Salvador, he was charmed to hear members of a pick-up band tootle The Star-Spangled Banner, which they had learned by ear from a Peace Corpsman, who had whistled it for three days. In Panama, he visited an Alliance-financed grade school and attended a dinner honoring the fourth anniversary of the Alliance, which he heads as part of his assignment...
...admissions procedure for next year will remain fundamentally unaltered. The traditional system of personal evluations is not flawless, Glimp said, "but there's always going to be pain when you have to turn down good boys...