Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allows the human body to be born disfigured, twisted and crippled, and to become palsied, leprous and maimed before reaching the grave-but He also gives each man a perfect soul at birth, the final appearance of which is man's work alone. The smug physical perfections of this world would do well to concern themselves more with the condition of their own souls...
...offered the figures on the frieze of the Parthenon as the most perfect examples of this artistic Humanism and idealism in the Ancient World. They represent that point of equilibrium at which "an inner vitality responds and corresponds to an outer measure," he concluded...
Meanwhile, the Yardling basketball team reached number 11 on its road to a perfect season last night, easily beating Northeastern, 73 to 59, at the I.A.B...
...foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist the diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy...
...excellent. Dorothy Stickney, as a ginned-away shop lifter redeemed by delusions of mother hood, is enormously funny. Cara Williams, the love interest, plays it tough and tender with equal sureness as a little Miss Wrong who is waiting for big Mr. Right. And Kurt Kasznar is just about perfect as a pillar of the pool hall trying to act like a paterfamilias...