Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whatever else it may be, art is difficult. To achieve it, the artist gives most of his time and often all of his energy. Whatever their school, painters of the past sincerely engaged in creating works of art labored for months, even years, to perfect a single picture. They were like Yeats, who slaved an entire day to get a few lines that satisfied him. The quick pace of modern life has accelerated the painter and wrecked his work. If I draw nice circles and squares, or if you paint pretty stripes set off with excellent polka dots, we have...
Following the Baltimore Catechism, a teacher asks, "Who is God?" and the well-drilled child responds: "God is the Supreme Being, infinitely perfect, who made all things and keeps them in existence." When a teacher using Come to the Father raises the subject of God, the child looks in his textbook at a brightly colored picture of the rising sun reflected in a pool of blue water. Then the teacher reads an accompanying lesson adapted from the Bible: "Let there be dry land and water and there was dry land and water. We say to God: Lord, how great...
...Perfect Christian Response is a counterploy to rebel youths who suspect that the game may not be worth the candle. "If you're a Christian," asks the Rebel Youth, "how come you live in a $60,000 house, have two cars, a color television set, and a cleaning woman? Didn't Christ preach against materialism?" The solemn Perfect Christian Response: "Suppose everyone did sell his belongings. Do you honestly think that people of means would be attracted to such a shoddy, lower-class type of Christianity...
...opposition's awareness of the cradle does leave Henjyoji with more freedom to work other moves, and he is working continuously to perfect new pinning combinations that complement the cradle...
...Perfect Deflection...