Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem? At this moment, my season average is hovering slightly above the desired level with three weeks remaining. As a matter of fact, without the Harvard games this year, I'm 24 for 25, which is almost perfect, and I know you think I'm perfect...
...Anthony Keating's transformation is pecularly a product of his times, Alison Murray's dilemma has a more enduring nature. She has struggled in her adult life to be beyond reproach, to be called a "perfect woman," a "perfect mother." Now, mirroring the demise of England, her own value system collapses. She realizes that the sacrifice of her career done in order to care for her defective daughter Molly has only ended by causing other women to hate her. They had already hated her for her beauty; they now hate her because the example she sets makes too many demands...
Unwittingly, her struggle to be the perfect woman has led to failure amidst success, as she hears the undertone of hatred in the voices of those who pay her the compliment. At more sanguine moments a feeling continues to haunt her that she deserves the blame for the tragedies that rock her loved ones, for Molly's cerebral palsy, for her older daughter Jane's traffic accident behind the Iron Curtain, for her sister Rosemary's breast cancer...
...received the gift of the Holy Spirit from God and has spoken in an unrecognizable language of praise. This experience happened to her at the end of her junior year at Harvard, she says. "You feel it welling up inside of you. God is giving you perfect words to say. It's astoundingly beautiful...
Needless to say, the committee is not perfect, nor are the programs it has helped to produce. Indeed, the programs are for the most part band-aid measures and are not long-run solutions to the country's income distribution problems. Unfortunately, right now such measures are the only game in town and the Select Committee on Nutrition is the best player we have. It is the only body in the Senate with a real commitment to improving the lot of poor people in this country. For those who do not feel this goal is important, the Litany of Hunger...