Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad and Berlin. Zhukov has always faithfully obeyed party orders, but he also seems to have stayed out of power politics and cliques. From the point of view of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of which he is a full member), Zhukov was the perfect channel for a direct approach to President Eisenhower. Around the world last week, people asked: Could the friendship of two old soldiers provide the basis for a genuine easing of tensions between the U.S. and Russia...
Stroke Bob Foley, one of the newcomers to rowing, has pushed his crew to a 6: 51 time trial and although the conditions were perfect the time is nonetheless remarkable. Even more encouraging to Wilde is the fact that the freshmen seem to improve every time they are on the water. Their blade handling looks smoother and they are getting stronger...
...JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY MEETING (Folkways; $11.90). Set in the midst of a windy "Meeting of the Joyce Society" is a perfect Eden of recitation: James Joyce reads the closing pages of Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake. Though the recording was made long before the days of hifi. Joyce's voice is so subtle, takes cadence and grades pitch with such finesse, that only a good record player can keep within an Irish mile...
Though the ladies in the cast are all near-perfect, the men do not suffer from comparison. As Jonathan Peachum, Fred Kimball can carry along the Brecht text in those rare moments when it wants in wit. Plagued by throat trouble, Kimball's singing was only the more authentic for the part. Dean Gitter, as Mack the Knife, was amusing and sleazy on cue, and when called upon near the end to carry the whole production through several numbers, rose to the occasion with no strain. He was a fine Macheath. With principals so admirably in hand, Mr. Aaron might...
...public attention is fickle, it is by no means frivolous. The March of Dimes collected millions, carrying polio research through the most expensive part of its job. Dr. Salk, of course, feels that he must continue research to perfect his vaccine. If the U.S. Public Health Service supports his work, as it certainly should, then the March of Dimes organization should mobilize to conquer some other dread disease...