Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even at home, Mecklin can't quite escape the relics of war. His Hong Kong house is on a hillside near an abandoned British antiaircraft battery site. The emplacements form a perfect play yard for his two young sons, Davy and Sandy...
Consistency & Constancy. Carroll put in: "Let Desi take a screen test. That would give us a couple of funny scenes with Lucy." Pretty, demure Madelyn Pugh, onetime radio writer, added: "Suppose Hollywood was shooting Don Juan and they thought Desi would be perfect for the part. This opens up all kinds of scenes. Lucy trying to play femmes fatales, Lucy getting jealous of the women Desi must make love to in the show...
Charles (in training at nearby Monticello, N.Y.) was reported feeling fine. "The next champ has been in perfect health since he had his infested tonsils cut out of his throat," said his manager, Jake Mintz (somewhat of an authority on medical matters, having once suffered from "coronated trombosis" himself...
...southern Luzon in the province of Taya-bas (now Quezon). His father, though he could not write, was a man of some importance in his village. Recto himself, educated by the Jesuits, stood at the head of his classes at Santo Tomas law school, learned to speak and write perfect Castilian (then the mark of a cultured gentleman...
...protect academic freedom. Instead, the universities should fight each case, individually, as it comes up. In the pages of this issue is some record of cases that have been fought by administrations, but many more that have not been. The universities must realize that the perfect case will never come. There will not be situations in which a man's guilt or innocence is so clear-cut or that a choice is easy. If a university will refuse to fight until it finds conclusive evidence of a man's innocence, it will never rise up to its own defense. Instead...