Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a free society could thrive. This belief lingers, and it is not confined to assertive patriots. Consciously or unconsciously, it is shared by the country's harshest critics, including the New Left, whose very anger is based partly on the assumption that the U.S. should be near-perfect, a working Utopia...
Although during the Hayden piece the second violinist appeared to provide background for Schneider's brilliant performance, the quartet nonetheless played as one--with perfect balance, coordinated variation, and excellent timing...
...growing up with borrowed nostalgia," I applaud your most interesting Essay "The Late Show as History" [June 28]. The oldtimers may not have had perfect style, but they had class...
...still considered landmarks in modern cinema history. Shoot the Piano Player was both a sly, imitative tribute to the Warner Bros, shootem-ups of the '30s and the existential drama of a man (Charles Aznavour) who can no longer respond to life. Jules and Jim was a near-perfect evocation of Montparnassian fin de siecle life, informed with psychological observations of the '60s. A blend of saline tragedy and dulcet comedy, it reinforced the burgeoning reputation of Actress Jeanne Moreau...
...Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea by Chemist Libby suggested one possible source of funds. In the nearly perfect vacuum of space, he said, scientists would finally have available the contamination-free conditions that would allow them to make diamonds out of coal...