Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no real lead in the play. Top roles are shared by nine men, all of whom happen to be members of the Cambridge City Council. Their acting is well nigh flawless. The plot is centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately...
...beard that was white and hoary with age and he made his living as a manufacturer of men's souls. In a way, he was very proud of his job because the souls that he made were very good souls, some of them were almost flawless...
...tradition of the London flat, the racy sophistication, and the intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree pure entertainment...
...here, this reads more like the inside of a jacket cover than a book review--take heart. The book is not entirely flawless. For one thing, it is too short. Then perhaps, you're one of those who don't like "S.O.B." However, it is difficult to conceive that some part of "Benchley--or Else!" should fail to find the funny bone of any reader. It is a collection of 71 short articles, some of which appeared in print almost two decades ago, and it covers a vast expanse of human experience--pigeons, hiccoughs, botany exams, poker, bisons, thunderstorms, truffle...
...Bureau mounts its diamonds (which must be more colorless and flawless than good grade jewelry stones) between two small brass contacts. One contact is charged with 1,000 volts of electricity. When an alpha, beta or gamma ray hits the diamond, it knocks an electron off one of the carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments...