Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken a long time. But the rebuilders have been cheered by the knowledge that their most valuable assistant is an artist who waited even longer for recognition. He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war. And though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public at long last realized that Bellotto had been a painter of the first rank, worthy of being mentioned...
...Torless rather ponderously testifies at a school-board inquiry into Basini's death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished...
...Crimson finished its scoring three minutes later. Sophomores Nick Hallett, in for Yehia, fed the ball to his left. Tufts' bulky goalie came out to meet the ball, but Robertson beat him to it and sent a centering pass across the goal mouth where Keppel was in perfect position to punch in his first varsity marker...
...Bonabond's record is perfect, even though its clients aren't. Of 375 members, 20 have had run-ins with the law, but none for crimes against an employer. Not a single claim has been filed against any bond. In fact, the mere promise of Bonabond approval has led several Washington employers to waive bonding altogether...
...next years were filled with reverses. She took a job as a governess in Yorkshire to supplement the meager family income, was crushed to find herself treated as a common servant. Hoping to start her own school, she enrolled in a Brussels pensionnat to perfect her French and learn feminine "accomplishments"; instead, she broke her heart over the school's happily married director...