Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy: Songs (Suzanne Banco, soprano; Guido Agosti, piano; London). A dozen samples of ecstasy in the French manner, i.e., the music sometimes croons languorously, sometimes soars dizzily, sometimes seems almost paralyzed with rapture. Debussy is the perfect composer for all this, French is the perfect language, I and the pure, true, warm voice of Soprano Banco is practically ideal...
...Perfect Game. There was brief hope as the week began. Crafty Sal Maglie was rested and ready. The Yanks were gambling on Don Larsen. a lighthearted playboy noted most for spectacular achievements such as wrapping his car around a Florida telephone pole during spring training. In the second game, he had lasted less than two innings...
...strike two. He fouled another off and settled grimly in the batter's box. Larsen pitched. Mitchell checked his swing, watched the third strike whiz by. The crowd let out its breath and roared. Yogi Berra leaped into Larsen's arms. Don Larsen had pitched the first perfect major-league no* hitter in 34 years, and the first no-hitter-of any kind in World Series history...
...pitched a perfect game in the major leagues since 1922, when Charlie Robert son of the Chicago White Sox won 2-0 over the Detroit Tigers; Larsen's was the seventh per fect game in all major-league history. Most colorful was the one between the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators in 1917, which was only recently declared "perfect" by baseball's official historians. The first Senator to bat actually reached first base, but he was walked by Pitcher Babe Ruth, who was prompt ly thrown out of the game for clouting Plate Umpire Brick Owens...
...virus-decimated varsity cross country team, minus its top two runners, slaughtered an inexperienced University of Massachusetts varsity, making it its 16th consecutive victim last Friday on the Franklin Park course. The final score was, the varsity a perfect 15, UMass...