Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...qualities that confounded Moscow critics: emotional nuances and inflections such as are normally heard only from string players; the special ghostly sonority that he can draw from the piano, as in the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3; fast passages that combine a feathery sound with perfect, unblurred articulation...
George Brown as the Vicar is particularly good in his opening ballad while his singing and acting are generally excellent. Alison Keith's Mrs. Partlett is a perfect characterization of the elderly pew-opener while Victoria Spurgeon as her daughter Constance is only competent. Stevens Garlick provides a perfect performance as the doddering, deaf old Notary...
Nasser Interview: To its gallery of foreign statesmen sitting for candid TV interviews, e.g., Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, China's Chou Enlai, CBS this week added President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the new United Arab Republic. Well-tailored and suave, speaking in near-perfect English (though he kept saying "freezed" for "froze"), Nasser discussed his plans to visit Moscow this month, and announced a Russian "loan" of 25 factories that will be set up in Egypt. Under hard-hitting questioning by CBS Cairo Correspondent Frank Kearns, Nasser composedly kept returning to a pat explanation for Egypt...
...expects the chemise to take over completely. But it may well prove a boon to the girl with the less-than-perfect figure who wants to conceal, rather than reveal, on the beach-and a bore to the men who have to look...
...also leary of cooperation with the rest of the industry lest it bring down the antitrust lawyers. Thus, unlike steel, where the strongest company does the talking, the auto-industry pattern will probably again be set by Ford, which fits the U.A.W.'s idea of the perfect sparring partner-not too strong, like G.M., or too weak, like Chrysler. The automakers have industry-wide bargaining in effect, but without any of its protection...