Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring Eyre brought Scott back from New York to star in the title role of King Lear, which garnered from its five reviewers such plaudits as "perfect," "brilliant," and "unbeatable...
...sense is "Memory of A Morning After" a perfect story, in the J. Donald Adams sense. The opening scene in an Automat seems wholely unnecessary, if not downright impossible because Tillich introduces you to strangers whom, it later develops, Louis knows very well--and so it could hardly be the morning-after reminiscence. And a few annoying lapses into nicely written stream-of-consciousness, or whatever they're calling it these days, gives Louis credit for an imagination he doesn't have. And in relating a macabre story of a friend, Vera, the girl, says "he grinned and wandered...
...tests for one year, provided that the Russians show up for a political conference on nuclear-blast detection (TIME, Sept. 1). Will Russia stick to its own moratorium, declared after a heavy bomb-test series last March? Cried Moscow Radio last week: "If Britain and the U.S.A. continue to perfect nuclear weapons by means of test explosions, the Soviet Union also probably will be forced in the final analysis to resume tests...
...bidding system that Goren and Sobel use in tournaments is the Goren system of his books, adjusted to the actual deal by hard thinking. A perfect example of Goren-Sobel precision bidding, at a U.S.-Ireland team match in Dublin last year...
WATER Music, by Bianco VanOrden (254 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is at bottom an old-fashioned novel about the tortuous ways of young love, even if its style flashes like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of Levitation (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), Author VanOrden showed a nice disinterest in anything ordinary. Now she makes up ordinary faces as if they were being prepared for an Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that...