Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Late George Apley, whose narrator is the perfect embodiment of the kind of Harvard man that Marquand has been satirizing for the past twenty years, explores with amazingly sustained deadpan humor the narrow social sensibility that one usually associates with the "Old Grad" type. Clubs, the "Pudding," and afternoon tea at prominent Boston houses are the essential activities of George Apley at Harvard. With very minor variations, this type of society is the one that Marquand writes about when, as in Wickford Point and Sincerely, Willis Wayde, he turns specifically to Harvard. It would be silly to base a general...
...Grays Hall, 18-15, for the freshman intramural touch football championship, had a 7-1 record for the season, final standings revealed. The champions lost their only game to Holworthy, which finished second in the National League. Grays, which took the American League little, finished the season with a perfect record...
...Delacroix's aim, as his friend French Poet Charles Baudelaire put it more precisely, was "to execute quickly enough and with sufficient sureness so as not to allow any element in the intensity of an act or idea to be lost." To this end Delacroix worked continually to perfect his drawing, at his death left behind him no less than 11,000 pastels, watercolors and sketches. A selection of these, on view this week at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum (see opposite), shows how much this wealth of preparation contributed to the magic of the paintings that have...
...charged with killing him. Since the widow was a witness in the case, the judge found Editor Smith in contempt of court, told her: "I realize you are putting on a great campaign for law and order, but if you read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much of a hit with His reform." Editor Smith appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court and won a reversal. In 1948, after an ex-G.I. had been killed in an auto collision with a man just acquitted of bootlegging charges, she roasted the jury...
...PERFECT CIRCLE STRIKE, in which eight employees were wounded last month at New Castle, Ind., has lost members for the U.A.W.C.I.O. In an NLRB election at Perfect Circle's three plants in Richmond and Hagerstown, Ind., the majority of employees voted against the union. The U.A.W. still represents strikers at one Perfect Circle plant...