Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist JOSEPH ALSOP : IT is perfect nonsense, in fact, to talk of these 1958 results in terms of a gigantic, irresistible tidal wave. What looked like a tidal wave was first of all the sum of a long series of local Republican choices of candidates obviously likely to repel the maximum number of votes. Wherever the Democrats committed comparable follies, as they did here and there, they also suffered...
Prophylactic for the East. Always a compulsive shoplifter of ideas and religious systems, Huxley wants mankind to find the ideas and beliefs most useful for a good and happy life, but forgets that men do not necessarily believe what is useful. Huxley's plan, apart from his perfect pill, seems to involve cooperative communities, birth control and freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will...
Munro's bombers took the measure of the Brown defenders in the first half and completely dominated play. Mudd got the first Crimson goal at 9:15 of the first period, converting perfect passes from John Hedreen and Tuckerman...
...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
Edward Finnegan's Harry Hope is perfect; Judge Springer's Hickey--which is an even more difficult role--is very close to perfect. Edward Zang (Willie), Ralf Coleman (Joe) and Michael Lilenthal (Hugo) begin well and get better as they go along...