Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saroyan failure matters scarcely at all, however, because the final piece, Garcia Lorca's The Love of Don Perlimpin for Belisa in the Garden, is nearly perfect. It is utterly compact; the depth and the texture of the fantasy are established in the first moment by a lute, by Joseph Ingelfinger's clever valentine set, and by the action of the two sprites who manipulate players and audience. There is no trace of strain in Lorca's imaginative forays; he evokes intense and genuine emotion without fighting against the unreal setting of the theatre. But because the play recognizes...
...McGeorge Bundy's reply to that asinine group of professors at St. Louis' Washington University was a masterpiece. It should go down in history as "the perfect squelch." Let us hope that more of our officials take McBundy's fine example and slap a few of these intellectuals down when they poke their academic noses outside of their classrooms. Let's put uniforms on a few of them for a starter...
...toward Miss Perkins," snapped New York's churlish Robert Moses, "is a good deal like that of habitués of a waterfront saloon toward a visiting lady slummer-grim, polite and unimpressed." Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior was constantly annoyed by her. "She talks in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath," he complained...
Harvard's tennis team places a perfect season on the line today against powerful and eager Penn, in a match which will decide who's top dog in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League...
...would be a tragedy of the first order," said Home Secretary Frank Soskice, introducing the bill, "if our country, with its unrivaled tradition of fair play, perfect respect for the rights and dignity of the individual, should see the beginnings of the development of a distinction between first-and second-class citizens." Britons themselves, of course, are among the most class-conscious people in the world, but Soskice was talking about a still more unfortunate class that was not even born in Britain. For the bill was the first formal recognition of the fact that Britain, like...