Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vienna, but one surviving reminder is the telephone system. With a languorous turn of a dial finger, the Viennese can evoke by telephone the latest weather reports, football pool results, stock and commodity exchange quotations, train or bus schedules, a complete daily dinner menu with recipes, or a perfect Atone for his violin...
...week's end he took his wife and young son out camping under the pines of Fontainebleau Forest. There Adrien spent his day scrambling up & down piddling little 15-and 20-ft. rocks. "It's not the real thing," he explained, "but it helps to perfect your technique...
...survey his work. Before him was a life-sized figure of a Nordic maiden chiseled in grey limestone. Sculptor Henning grunted critically. His Recumbent Girl, finished last week for Copenhagen's Carlsberg museum, was his first major work in two years, and he wanted it to be perfect...
...Like the World's Joseph Pulitzer, he used banner headlines, developed reader promotion, and went in for crusades and stunts, e.g., raising a fund to build the Statue of Liberty pedestal. He also brought out several daily editions of the Globe, inaugurated newsstands, and encouraged Ottmar Mergenthaler to perfect the linotype machine. He even found time to free Steve Brodie from jail, where he had been lodged for diving off the Brooklyn Bridge...
...clues found in the paintings, thinks Bosch was also secretly an Adamite, a member of a sect called "Brethren of the Free Spirit," which found many underground recruits in the late Middle Ages. The Adamites reacted strongly against the church view on unbounded fleshly pleasures. They believed that perfection could be achieved not by ascetic prayer, but by a return to the perfect love of natural man, as typified by Adam and Eve. Sex, in their view, was essentially beautiful, never embarrassing. To emphasize this, they often took off their clothes during their secret rituals...