Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acts of association, the professor accepts conventions which become morally binding. Above all, he owes his colleagues . . . complete candor and perfect integrity, precluding any kind of clandestine or conspiratorial activities. He owes equal candor to the public. If he is called upon to answer for his convictions, it is his duty as a citizen to speak out. It is even more definitely his duty as a professor. Refusal to do so, on whatever legal grounds, cannot fail to reflect upon a profession that claims for itself the fullest freedom to speak and the maximum protection of that freedom available...
...reigning Romanovs. Three handsome examples (opposite) are the gold and lapis lazuli egg, with a miniature portrait of Czarevitch Alexis, given by Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1912; the fabulous rock crystal egg (at top), which contains a revolving gallery of twelve gold-framed miniatures capped with a perfect, 27-karat Siberian emerald; and the engraved gold egg which opens to eight painted panels showing favorite imperial charities...
...mediocre in her theatrical skill, but inordinately wise in the ways of people and of love. One feels at times that her strange love affair with Barrault, the great mime Baptiste, would be mawkish and unbelievable if both artists were not so expert, and if the direction were not perfect. It is quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands waiting for him. To follow this by having his best friend seduce the woman a few minutes later might easily...
...skill as an anecdotal biographer before this, e.g., in G.B.S., Disraeli, Dickens, Oscar Wilde. In The Man, Whistler, he does a similarly deft job on an expatriate Yankee who was not only the most uncrushable wit of his day but an artist who believed he existed to correct and perfect Nature itself...
Yale, which swept the 220, and had taken first, second, and fourth in the 1500 meters, turned in another near perfect performance in the 440 freestyle. Jimmy McLane edged Captain Wayne Moore for first by eight-tenths of a second. McLane's time was 3:34.1, his best by three seconds all year. Australian John Marshall swimming for the first time in weeks, took third and the Blue's Marty Smith was fourth. Bill Yorzyk of Springfield was fifth...