Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attitude: A perfect Stalin-Khrushchev party servant, a dedicated Communist and agile follower of the weaving party line, who has said: "From our point of view, it is as inevitable as the night follows day that the capitalist system will be replaced by the socialist system...
Murder in Effigy. With a perfect damsite in view, the American forgets his promise and tells of his hopes. In Old Pebble's view, the engineer has cursed the junk, and murdered the river in effigy with his plans. And to the American, Old Pebble is an annoying boulder in the path of progress. The two are locked in their petty feud when the river takes an awesome hand in its own destiny, leaving the American chastened and wiser...
...Maria Pi y Suñer, dean of the University of Barcelona's law school, a good chuleta is the mark of an alert student who has pored long and well over his lessons. Citing the exceptional case of a deaf student whose answers were perfect in an oral examination on canon law, Dean Suñer recalls that months later he learned that the lad's ears were as excellent as the grade he got. His hearing aid was actually a chuleta, a two-way phone with a wire running from the student to the back...
...thanked his doctors for repairing his facial burns. "Take a look at my face," he said. "Nearly perfect, isn't it?" Except for the eye pads, a reddish patch on his right cheek was the only apparent trace of the attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
...environment: "Art is not concerned with environment; it doesn't care where it is. If you mean me, the best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel.* In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in. The place is quiet during the morning hours, which is the best time of day to work. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food and a little whiskey...