Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised to submit a new, milder version. Florence's monkish Mayor Giorgio La Pira refused to sign orders laying off opera employees on the;rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject to audit...
...Crimson swimming team recorded its tenth consecutive victory of the season Saturday by defeating Columbia in New York, 68-18. The varsity now finds itself in a familiar position: unbeaten, with only next weekend's Yale meet to go, but with only a very slim chance of preserving this perfect record against the always-powerful Elis...
Yale also began to foul rather heavily, and the Crimson maintained an almost perfect foul-shooting percentage during the opening minutes of the second half. A Canty hook-shot brought the Crimson within one point, 53-52, at the nine-minute mark, but the varsity became over-eager and the scoring stopped until Downs drove in with a layup to give Yale a 55-52 lead at the halfway mark...
...Stuttgart has completed its attempt to provide an acoustically perfect shape with its $2,600,000 Liederhalle. The result is a windowless, concrete, ear-shaped main auditorium (capacity: 2,000) with as many curves as a Stradivarius. On the right wall hangs a cluster of boxes, below a buttonhook-shaped balcony that begins at orchestra level, becomes a raised balcony on the back wall. Says Co-Architect Adolf Abel: "The layout not only makes more sense acoustically but it helps to relax the audience...
...seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where he discovers a pantherish moonshiner named Aaron McCool who echoes the sentiments that Duncan feels...