Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Nautilus is launched, Rickover will be on hand to see it christened. Its sponsor: Mamie Eisenhower. He will probably keep well behind the horde of political and military notables. In Rickover's mind the Nautilus is not perfect; he criticizes it rather than praises it, for that is his way with the things he loves. He knows how it could be made better and how future nuclear submarines will be better. His nimble brain has already run ahead to the day when atomic engines will have proved themselves in submarines and will have multiplied to change...
...incomparably noble man, whose decisions invariably prove fatal, has a grandeur which over-shadows the other principals. But the character has a distinct headstart, for alone of Julius Caesar's major roles, Brutus is free of the contradictions often unresolved in the other characters. Gielgud's Cassius, the perfect embodiment of "the lean and hungry look," is a fascinating mixture of virtue and venality. The same quality, however, is more obscure in the characters of Antony and Caesar. In the case of Antony, played by Brando with an undercurrent of sensual violence, the obscurity is increased by the sole episode...
...think that a God who is truly a father cannot torture his children eternally . . . that, at the end of time, that is, the present world, mercy will have to prevail over justice. If this were not so, we must think that Christ's own Father is not a perfect Christian...
...begins to tire: "Then I leave it to do something else; when my hand gets tired, it isn't so stiddy." Sometimes Grandma turns to television, "though it's gettin' to be monotonous," or more likely just chats with Winona. Grandma's hearing is perfect, and she says, "I love the gossip." Now & then she entertains her neighboring great-grandchildren who "come troopin' acrost the field, lookin' like Coxey's Army...
Mary Maloney was a tender, loving wife, but when her policeman husband tried to leave her, she crushed his skull with the nearest thing at hand: a leg of lamb fresh from the freezer. Without quite knowing it, Mary had committed a perfect crime. Before the commiserating police have finished their investigation at the Widow Maloney's house, the murder weapon has been cooked and eaten...