Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undefeated Eliot House football team successfully defended its perfect 6-0 season record by stifling an Eli Jonathan Edwards-Bradford squad, 15-0, as the Harvard House teams won four of the seven Harvard-Yale intramural contests held yesterday afternoon...
...case of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society's production of A Funny Thing Happened to the Way to the Forum has nothing more to offer than good acting, mad cavorting on stage, fine singing, Stephen Sondeim songs and Shevelove-Gelbart one-liners delivered with perfect timing--well; sit back and be entertained by it all. Forget the silly story line; don't look for morals. As the slave Pseudolus sings, "Morals tomorrow, comedy tonight...
Anne Dufresne as Philia, the courtesan who is to be sold to the great captain Miles, is properly, well, courtesanly. She's perfect as the broken-voiced dumb blonde who always gets three and five mixed up. She brings perhaps the most depth to her part--she may be a virgin but after all she's been instructed in the arts of life (which Hero hasn't been) and when she sings "I'm lovely," she really is. But that voice ain't the voice of any virgin I ever heard; that's a Weimar cabaret voice, smokey Blue Angel...
...would be glaringly apparent, and the musical can simultaneously fall apart at the seams and flat on its face. The Grant-in-Aid production sales through this scene on a breeze. In the intricate finale, everyone scampers on and off the stage constantly and the all-important timing is perfect...
Some noted that the timing may occasionally be wrong for the activist leader, that there are times when consolidation should take precedence over change, when it is more important to perfect existing institutions than to create new ones. Some suggested that today is such a period. Arthur Okun, 47, chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers (now a member of TIME'S Board of Economists), suggested that Americans are not looking for drastic changes but "the kind of changes Detroit makes from one year to another in its car models...