Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist Gary died before he could finish his book, but his imperfect work has more of life's stuff in it than all but a few of the year's other novels. His hero is a seedy, reedy British faith healer. Gary's unanswered question: Does the mystical hipster sometimes feel more truly than the Establishment square...
...least one day a week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...
...them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright sloppiness. And just as surely, much of it seems in the end like some kind of smoldering, personal poetry that stands out defiantly imperfect and unassailable...
...pact, and Iran's Eghbal outspokenly demanded more U.S. and British aid. But the U.S. had already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking the free world's strategic position in the Middle East, and Herter also made it plain that he was aware of that. Said he: "CENTO will continue to enjoy strong U.S. support...
Most people agree that Bicker is at best an imperfect system, but few refuse to participate in it. Those who chose this course found a refuge in the Woodrow Wilson Lodge, the so-called "alternate facility" set up by the University in 1956. Until this year, the "facility" was considered a dumping ground, and only a handful was willing to join. It did not matter that the handful was an intelligent and congenial group; its numbers were too small to be significant...