Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sitting on the edges of our chairs. On the one hand, Joe Mc Carthy does not quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before a TV set and watch a McCarthy victim squirm behind the Fifth Amendment...
...18th century we have the first indication of clandestine theatrical activity among students here. From the diary of Nathaniel Ames '61 come the notations in 1785: "July 6, Cato to perfection;" "July 14, Cato more perfect than before." In 1760 he wrote, "Acted Tancred and Sigismunda for which we are likely to be prosecuted," and, five years later, "Scholars punished at college for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the June, Devil...
...board of governors, including Simonson, Abbott, Davis, Macgowan, Jones, Wertheim and Ames. These men formed a visiting faculty which supplemented the permanent staff by coming to Cambridge periodically, when their professional duties allowed, to give lecture series and work with students on productions. This system seemed to strike the perfect balance between the professional and the academic, and there was much optimism about the school's prospects. But it ran for only two years and then folded for lack of financial support. Rumors circulated that the University would have agreed to take over the school had it been a success...
...evil that he organized a private detective force to keep the Interior Department toeing the mark. He balefully noted that Harry Hopkins, then the WPAdministrator, "is intolerant and impetuous" and is "playing the game of a desperate gambler." Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins talked at Cabinet meetings "in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath, as if she feared . . someone [would] break in on her." He felt it "little short of impertinent" for Mrs. Roosevelt to dabble in public housing, and added: "Soon I will expect Sistie and Buzzy [Roosevelt grandchildren] to be issuing orders to members...
...Captain's Paradise" is Guinness superb. Celia Johnson is the perfect homebody; Yvonne De Carlo is perfect in her way too. A splendid comedy. At the Paris...