Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard takes a perfect 4-0 record into the contest, while its hapless opponents have lost all six games they have played. Against Brown, the only mutual opponent, the Crimson administered a 92-47 shellacking to the same team that trimmed the Huskies...
Although Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano Obbligato is a modern masterwork, it showed off the Orchestra's weakest section, the strings, and the performance was uneven. Bloch's incisive rhythms give the work an excitement and a tension that make it a perfect piece to try out on people who "don't like modern music." The final fugue, especially, builds and builds until only the most blase listener can remain unmoved...
Baseball's newest immortal, New York Yankee Hurler Don Larsen, 27, who last October pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, finally got around to paying his estranged wife, mother of his 16-month-old daughter, some $400 in support arrears. Then Vivian Larsen, a former Baltimore telephone operator married to Larsen last year, dropped her separation suit against him, thus unfroze Larsen's $8,714.76 share of series money...
...maintained by some naive homosexuals, and voluntarily perpetrated by some who are not so naive. The theory claims that a man can be-alternately or concomitantly-homo-and hetero-sexual. The statement is as rational as one declaring that a man can at the same time have cancer and perfect health. Some homosexuals are occasionally capable of lustless mechanical sex with a woman . . . They tend to marry as a means of proving . . . that they are completely normal...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, which has long worried over the way speculative Canadian stock issues pour into U.S. markets despite SEC regulations, last week got what it thought was a perfect example of how it is done. The case involved Great Sweet Grass Oils Ltd. and Kroy Oils Ltd., sister Canadian companies whose stock was recently suspended on the American Stock Exchange because the oil and asset claims looked suspicious (TIME, Nov. 5). But as SEC poked deeper in a hearing last week, it uncovered a series of transactions that seemed to duck around U.S. regulations and bring windfall profits...