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Word: perfectability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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William D. Roberts has provided the play with highly effective colonnade settings which, with alternations, serve as a study, an English park, a Spanish moor, and a hacienda. The grass in front of the stage, moreover, makes a perfect roadway for the introduction of Tanner's early-model automobile...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

Anouilh has conceived of his main characters in pairs, which balance off against each other in perfect classical symmetry. There is the rich, middle-aged Lady Hurf and the poor, middle-aged master thief Peterbono, each constantly trying to outwit the other. There are the two young nieces and the two young apprentice thieves; the gay niece pursues the sad thief and is repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Thieves' Carnival | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...golden girl." Soon all the dreams came true: Joanne became engaged (after four proposals) to lanky British Millionheir Sportsman Robert Sweeny, 37, California-born wartime R.A.F. hero, onetime (1937) British amateur golf champion. Said the golden girl: "We're both so idealistic and romantic. We want everything just perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: End of the Chronicle | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...rapped what he termed the frequent conflict between the mechanics of education and education itself, pointing to buildings so mechanically perfect that "nothing is left for the children to create...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educators Confer On Problems of Population Rise | 7/11/1957 | See Source »

...radio astronomy at the University of Manchester. It was designed by Henry Charles Husband, and its cost (more than $2,000,000) was paid by the Nuffield Foundation and Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Leading British companies vied to make the telescope as nearly perfect as possible. They succeeded so well that its moving parts (total weight 2,000 tons) sweep the great bowl across the sky as smoothly and inevitably as if the earth were moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bobby Dazzler | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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