Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to interviews with trainees, the second weekend features more est metaphysics and more difficult exercises. "Being" is far more important than "doing" or "having." We are all "perfect" and only our "barriers" keep us from experiencing our perfection. In one exercise, trainees imagine or "build" a perfect house in their minds, install perfect furniture, then conjure up a file cabinet with complete folders on everyone they know or ever wanted to know...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, LL.D. He has become our least embarrassed spokesman for our less than perfect democracy...
Readers who wonder why the author stretches Miss Herbert over 300 pages will also wonder why the book is difficult to put down. The reason is that Stead has constructed her trap with extraordinary craftsmanship and provided the perfect bait: a woman persuasively beautiful enough to arouse envy in the female and interest in the male...
...liberal arts education taught me that much. That's why some years we'd play Holy Cross and perhaps Bucknell, and then the next fall we'd take on B.U. and UMass. Fine, I'm all for it. But this wholesale reshuffling is going too far. The nearly perfect alphabetical order of ivy opponents has been obliterated, the two Southern schools (Penn and Princeton) both play in Cambridge in odd-numbered years, and we're being asked to play a league opponent, albeit Columbia, before getting a chance to polish skills against two non-league teams. It's hard...
...last time the freshmen heavies travelled to Henley--back in 1972--they copped top honors, and Washburn is hoping for a repeat performance by this year's crew, which went the regular-season distance with a perfect record in Eastern Regional competition...