Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was typical of his care and taste throughout the work. Never once did he say to his confreres, "See what a big noise I can make. Let's see you try to match it." He never strayed from a perfect sense of balance and ensemble. And this had the fortunate result that the violin and 'cello were never compelled to force their tone to the point of raspiness, which so often happens with an overpowering pianist. These three artists demonstrated clearly that chamber music is a collaborative rather than a competitive...
There is plenty that is pure Brahms in this work, such as the perfect balance between the Romantic material and its Classical treatment; the special textures and spacings in the scoring; and the frequent rhythmical and metrical subtleties. And idea after idea is characterized by what the Germans call "Schwung," a term that unfortunately has no reasonable equivalent in English...
Echoes of Misfortune. To the Belgians, who have been waiting a bit impatiently for their glum bachelor King to get married, Paola seemed the perfect answer to the national yearning for a royal romance. Blonde, gracious and 21, she is descended from one of Italy's oldest noble families, the daughter of the late aviation ace, the Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Duke of Guardia Lombarda and Count of Sinopoli...
...young people who held readings of plays and stories. At one of these home entertainments, the featured attraction was Beauty and the Beast, with Dick Nixon starring in the second of the two title roles. A great many of Nixon's adversaries are still convinced that this was perfect type casting...
...Cold Fish. Maybe one of Dick Nixon's troubles is that he is too perfect. His God-fearing parents of modest means, the excellence of his record in school, his beginnings as a lawyer in Whittier (known as "Ye Friendly Town"), and his liking for pineapple milk shakes are all almost too good to be true. He has an amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them...