Word: perfecter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perhaps we were mad. Perhaps anyone who seeks to find the realization of a dream in this workd is mad. No matter. It made perfect sense to us at the time, after countless Christmases of finding cheap and gaudy trinkets to give away, or of finding only simply good deals, not The deal...
This is not a perfect world, it is not an open world, it is a world in which we must balance our idealism and our realism in international affairs. We must be sure that the check of accountability is there, so that we do not overdo our realism. We must ensure that the check of accountability is made sufficiently flexible, however, that we do not overdo our idealism. As I say to you, we are not there, yet; we are moving strongly in the right direction...
Aided by some perfect passing, the Crimson scored easy layups on an alley-oop play and a breakaway basket to capture a four-point lead early in the second half. Once the score reached 70-67 in Harvard's favor with ten minutes remaining in the contest, both teams suffered a five-minute scoring drought until a Bentley field goal broke the ice, setting the stage for Fine's defensive masterpiece...
Once you give up looking for any idea behind a Gilbert and Sullivan performance, you can only hope that there will be individual singers good enough to hold the show together. The Loeb cast is near-perfect--the overall quality of singing is strikingly high--even better, the cast and chorus remain completely intelligible throughout the evening. This is the best insurance possible for a G & S show; as long as Gilbert's words come through, laughs will follow...
...analogy, however, is far from perfect...