Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Vickrey is an excellent addition to your staff of cover artists; his portrait of M. Dior is in perfect harmony with your amusing article. Christian's perplexed expression confronted with oversized dressmaker's shears is superb...
Under a Palm. Until messages for Attorney Michel went unanswered for several days, nobody at the hotel missed the tourists, but finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed...
...Western eyes accustomed to classic Greek sculpture, which took as its ideal the figure of the perfect athlete or full-proportioned woman, it is immediately apparent that the goal for Indian sculpture was something quite different. The answer lies in the Indian belief that the aim of life is moksa, release from physical surroundings, and that art should contribute to that goal. Indian artists took their clue from the discipline of yoga, made their ideal the image of a mystical, purifying lightness signifying release from physical bondage, which they called the "subtle body," and believed to be the very form...
...course, also knows what odds to expect on its president, who turns out to be the perfect risk. At 58, with a trim 175 Ibs. spread over his 5-ft.-10-in. frame. Shanks is lean and rosily healthy. As insurance pamphlets advise, he likes to get eight hours' rest most nights-10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He does an hour's calisthenics before eating a sensibly big breakfast. Trlis other meals are light; he tries to keep lunch within 300 calories and dinner within 700. He does not smoke, rarely drinks, and has few financial worries...
...Crimson captain was slightly off his game, but after some slight initial difficulties with Griffiths' crushing smash service in the first game, he was in complete control of the match. It was a perfect example of touch, power and court control overcoming the pure power game...