Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PERFECT EDUCATION by Kenneth E. Eble. 215 pages. Macmillan...
...campuses in 1964. Unlike Golden Curtain, this book makes no attempt to be constructive, and indeed is patently false in many respects. Aitken and Beloff find it typically American for college coeds to approach perfect strangers with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also...
...husky sophomore quit his construction job and stepped it up to two practice sessions a day. He was determined to return to Cambridge in perfect condition...
...Endless Summer is essentially a travelogue, with only the meagerest story line: Brown photographs two young surfers as they travel around the world, seeking the perfect wave and following the summer...
What is best about The Endless Summer can be summed up by Brown's breathless statement after the boys find their perfect wave at some uninhabited spot on the Indian Ocean. "Just think," Brown muses. "Think of the thousands of waves that have gone to waste here...