Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head. Some of the lyrics make no sense internally. "I'm a Boy" is about a boy whose parents insist that he is a girl, and he wants to act like a boy, but he's afraid. Why? Well, the thing about Who songs is that they always make perfect sense within the right context. I couldn't imagine a situation in which "I'm a Boy" would have made sense, except if his parents were crazy. But then I read that it was part of a whole story, an early mini-opera. It was supposed to take place...
...perfect candidate," wrote Harvard Professors Edward Banfield and James Wilson, "is of Jewish, Polish, Italian or Irish extraction and has the speech, dress, manners and the public virtues-honesty, impartiality and devotion for public interest-of the upper-class Anglo-Saxon...
Security Blanket. On Tonight, McMahon is the perfect aide-de-camp. Like Carson, he keeps his chatter on the light side. It's a basketball game of sorts, the way Ed sees it: "I help him get the ball down the court, and he sinks the basket." Sliding farther and farther down the couch as the guests pile up, Ed can still be heard roaring delightedly at all Carson's jokes, even the frequent gibes at Ed's supposed alcoholic prowess. Last week, giving blood on camera to help dramatize a nationwide shortage, Carson lifted his head...
...Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel suits. The Post's last hope was 36-year-old Corporation Lawyer Martin Ackerman, whose 1962 merger of four firms to create Perfect Film & Chemical Corp. showed his knack for healing sick companies...
...play itself provides a perfect vehicle for his skills. Hadrian is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fantasy and fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, who died in 1913 at the age of 53 and was, to put it simply, as mad as a hatter. He disgraced himself at Oxford by going to a fancy dress ball as a raven and voiding a pint of whitewash from his tail in front of the Prince of Wales. He converted to Roman Catholicism and, in pursuit of holy orders, got himself expelled from two different seminaries for "lack...