Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Describing preoccupation with celibacy as "a hobbyhorse of Roman Catholic theology," Dutch Priest R.J. Bunnik contended that Pope Paul's decision on the issue even "contradicts the way of thinking of the Second Vatican Council, which refused to call the religious life any longer the 'state of perfection' and laid great stress on the vocation of all members of the church to a life of perfect love...
Nonetheless, the vast majority of the center's visitors seem to like it. Chief among them is Corbu's brother, Composer Albert Jeanneret, 83. Says he: "This is one of Corbu's masterworks, a perfect assembly of volumes and obliques. This house is a part of Corbusier and therefore inimitable...
novice nun who discovers that her wing-shaped cornet, mirabile dictu, is a perfect airfoil. The show will be cut to half an hour once Sister Bertrille gets airborne...
...paradoxes abound. Sandy is part American Midwesterner, part American bohemian. She is soft, cuddly, feminine-yet a blue-streak cusser and a four-letter woman. She looks like the idealized schoolteacher that boys remember falling in love with. Her skin is transparent. Her features, with one exception, are almost perfect. Her windswept hair is a lovely honey color...
Died. Paul Muni, 71, virtuoso of biographical roles; of a heart attack; in Montecito, Calif. "Method? Formula? Highfalutin words," Muni once scoffed. Trained on New York's Yiddish stage, he submerged himself in each new movie role until the actor disappeared, taking days to perfect his makeup, spending weeks learning every nuance of the characters he portrayed-an arrogant gangster in Scarf ace (1932), a fierce patriot in Juarez (1939), a dedicated scientist in The Story of Louis Pasteur, which won him a 1936 Oscar. His Hollywood appeal faded in the 1940s, but he made a triumphant return...