Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed forces have gone from propeller-driven airplanes to supersonic jets to guided missiles; the Navy has moved from steam turbine to nuclear power to drive new ships. But the U.S. Army last week was still marching earnestly forward in search of a weapon it has been unable to perfect through ten years of research and testing: a new infantry rifle...
Practical Physics. When he came home from the 1952 Olympics, champion by a bare three-quarters of an inch over Darrow Hooper, Parry was convinced it was time to perfect his private style. Says he solemnly: "It's an application of physics which says that the longer you apply pressure or force to an inanimate object, the farther it will go. My style is geared to allow me to apply force for the longest time before releasing the shot." Boiled down to its essentials, the O'Brien put begins with the putter at the rear of the ring...
...scrapes his whole body in a whirling drive across the circle. The shot seems to explode from his hand to the sound of a monumental grunt. Fully three-quarters of Parry's body winds up leaning across the boundary of the ring, but his balance is so perfect that not for years has he spoiled a put by stepping over the edge...
Schnabel's playing was never note-perfect, but his performances on these disks have something so compelling that mere perfection would seem paltry by comparison. The recorded sound transferred from the old disks varies from good to barely acceptable by modern standards, despite the labors of Victor engineers. The package sells for a luxurious $80, a price that does not preclude some annoying corner-cutting: the sonatas are crammed together, one starting wherever the previous one leaves off, as if the listener were going to stack the entire 32 sonatas on his changer and run them through chronologically...
...face . . . And how fine is the hair of her head, how fair indeed are her eyes and how pleasing her nose and all the radiance of her face . . . How beautiful her breast and how lovely all her whiteness. Her arms goodly to look upon, and her hands how perfect ... all the appearance of her hands. How fair her palms and how long and fine all the fingers of her hands. Her legs how beautiful and without blemish her thighs. And all maidens and all brides that go beneath the wedding canopy are not more fair than she. And above...