Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wednesday night's concert, the second of three, began with a Concerto for violin, cello, and harpsichord by Couperin. Ruth Posselt, the new violinist, is the competent, unspectacular kind of performer who subordinates herself to the music at hand. Her easy-going interpretation was perfect for this comparatively light-weight work. 'Cellist Samuel Mayes, who appeared in all eight parts of the program, showed remarkable versatility. His tone was full and rich in the important solo sections, but in the later continuo passage he held himself down so that one could barely hear him over the harpsichord...
...certain amount of corruption is fundamental to the American way of life and the American way of politics. One has only to look at England, where ticket-fixing and governmental corruption are virtually unknown, to realize this. It is foolish for a nation of ticket-fixers to expect perfect honesty in its government, any more from Republicans than from Democrats...
With him in the section these days are three or four other regulars (depending on the music to be played), who operate everything from bass drum to bird whistles. Goodman plays on kettles he made himself in his Yonkers shop. Next to his pride in producing a perfectly sustained tone and his ability to tune his instruments to perfect pitch while the orchestra is playing, is his pride in his patented devices for simplified timpani tuning. He has sold kettledrums at $600 a pair to the major U.S. orchestras and to some foreign ones...
...first two minutes of the second half, Bob O'Brien tied up the game when he sank a perfect cross from Manse Hall, Amherst inside. Although the Purple outhustled Harvard during most of the period (seven shots to two), the Crimson went ahead again just before the end of the third quarter when Alex Haegler booted a low, hard drive into the left corner of the cage from 25 yards out--the prettiest shot of the game...
...Governor Thomas E. Dewey buried President Truman under a perfect 4 to 1 return, with 368 faculty members going Republican and only 92 backing the incumbent...