Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed almost the perfect job for the savvy Washington lawyer. Carter has made nuclear arms reduction one of the top goals of his Administration, and Warnke is certainly a leading champion of that cause. But for a number of congressional hawks, the nomination was anything but ideal. They fear that Warnke is too soft to deal with the Soviets. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, for example, said he was concerned "about what I have seen and heard of Mr. Warnke's position," while Democratic Senator Sam Nunn complained that Warnke has opposed many of those U.S. weapons systems (e.g., MIRVed...
...those last three bouts belonged to Harvard. John Williams (177 lbs.), who has won a starting nod ahead of Fred Smith (2-6-1), tied his foe in knots, 8-0. Sal D'agostino, sliding up a weight in the lineup, ran his perfect record to 9-0 with his sixth pin of the year...
...marriage accepting the prevailing belief that when a wife's interests and needs differed from her husband's, she should sacrifice them. It was soon apparent that Dudevant, who liked to hunt, drink and sleep, had little in common with his intellectual bride. Initially Sand tried to be the perfect and obedient young wife and mother. The attempt did not last. She soon began to question why she, rather than her "master," was required to suppress what was of personal importance...
...love" and not always then. She declared, "Love is all." But for Sand, love is only love when both partners are equals, "when two hearts, two minds, two bodies meet in understanding and embrace." She drifted from lover to lover, agonizing over the breaks and partings. She sought the perfect relationship, and if she couldn't have it, she would readily leave one man to join another who was, in her words, "closer to perfection...
...deeper insight; it's a curiously challenging boredom. The unfamiliar is so predictable as to become unexpected. Composer Steve Reich articulates this aesthetic in an essay defining music as a "gradual process." He writes, "I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music," a perfect description of "Marimba," a dance about form revealing itself...