Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company's affinity for this ballet, however, goes beyond good dancing by the leads. Morrice's analysis of a creation manipulated by the forces of a consciousness (represented by the dancers), where spontaneity is possible for only an instant before everything dissolves into the confusion of introspection, is the perfect vehicle for the Forum, whose three works demonstrated their belief that imaginings of the mind supercede bodily imaginings...
With each of the interviewers, he is the perfect method actor. He tries to make a personal contact with each of them through objects--commenting on their faces, their fingernails, anything to make them relate to him personally. Instead, they barrage him with the same stupid questions and cliches. He takes the offensive against the sweet vacuous interviewer from Chicago--"Jeezus, I'm going to have to look you up when I go to Chicago...
Japes Emerson '77 began to sense "a vague dissatisfaction with things" during his sophomore year at Harvard, and during the spring of that year, while he was casually pondering taking time off, "a perfect job just sort of fell into my lap." Emerson had been active in theater while at school, performing at the Loeb and in House productions. The perfect job was steady work as an actor with The Proposition, a Cambridge-based improvisational performing troupe. Emerson remained with The Proposition for 15 months, rising, due to a heavy turnover rate, from low man on the totem pole...
...press and national educational and women's organizations. She had written extensively on women in higher education--her fear-of-success hypothesis--which magazines gave wide and favorable coverage to. At 32, Radcliffe's youngest president was described as vivacious, articulate, charming and intellectual; she seemed the perfect figure to lead Radcliffe as it neared the end of its first 100 years...
...stageworthiness, Figaro lives by its music, as any great opera must. It has been many years since New York has heard it sung and played so exquisitely. To describe the entire cast, the word perfect for once seems apt. Among the women, British Soprano Margaret Price sang the Countess with an appealingly fresh vocal bloom and a masterly control of the Mozartean style. From New York's Frederica von Stade came a Cherubino of distilled soprano beauty and ebullient range of boyish emotion. Soprano Mirella Freni remains the best Susanna of the day. Belgium...