Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College, Duffy joined TIME in 1960, and was a researcher and book reviewer for several years before becoming an editor. Literature is mostly an avocation now, but she retains a fondness for mystery novels and has thought of writing one. "TIME" she says with a grin, "would be the perfect setting...
...King Kong receives your royal treatment: cover story, color photographs-the works. The death and career of Edith Evans are succinctly reported in 22 lines. TIME must, of course, follow the best principles of commercial journalism. Still, I occasionally long for the more perfect world that owes, and gives proper and just attention...
...style. It was ferocity. That, plus his victories at Green Bay, made him the focus for a generation of football writing. Presently, we heard from the right that Lombardi was the noblest Roman since Octavius. (Not Brutus. Brutus lost.) The left suggested that he would have made a perfect fascist. In the cacophony people forgot that Lombardi was only a football coach who put Xs and Os on a board-righthanded...
...course, he has two perfect actors for it in Gielgud and Richardson, and Director Peter Hall never misses a nuance or a climax. Whenever Gielgud and Richardson play together, the evening becomes memorable. It was so in David Storey's Home and it is so now. Flawless timing, intuitive ensemble work, a mastery of gesture from antic toe to arching eyebrow, and marvelously contrasting voices, Gielgud's rippling clarinet and Richardson's booming bass viol-they have it all. May some guardian angel of drama protect and preserve them in our midst...
...bacteria and viruses-evolved into the same ecological niche as man. Disease organisms presented few problems as long as humans were few and their communities small; pathogenic, or disease-causing, microbes can flourish only in a large human reservoir. But population growth and the development of cities provided a perfect breeding ground for epidemic illness. Outbreaks of various kinds killed Babylonians and Egyptians, stalked the streets of ancient China...