Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this tendency exclusively American--it has well-developed French, Russian and British counterparts. But the vision of literature as a selfcontained world has achieved its fullest acceptance here, in part because of its perfect suitability for the compartmentalization of disciplines in American universities. More important perhaps, as Quentin Anderson argues in The Imperial Self, has been the powerful strain in American culture which regards the self as radically opposed to the social world, and hence treats the self's creative products as fundamentally unsocial in a way no continental critic could...
...Diehl, good refereeing consists of a triad of intangibles he labels consistency, acceptance, and control. Hannon phrases his motto as "knowledge of the rules, good judgment, and fairness." Whatever the criteria, every official aims to have "the perfect angle" when he makes a call, which Diehl describes as having the play in full view from its inception to the time of the infraction. "There is no perfect position, you've got to work for it," he adds. For Hannon "the key to the whole thing is hustling and getting down the court...
...Perfect Execution...
...came down to the fact that we outcoached them," Petrovek commented. "Tim Taylor did a perfect job scouting them and we knew exactly what they'd do in every situation. We executed our own plays perfectly...
...thrust forward, one dancer poses with pelvis thrust forward, one hand positioned smugly behind his head. His photograph and then a larger-than-life silhouettte is thrown on the scrim. More and bigger photographs follow as other dancers join in, all lit by a bronze glow, enshrining them as perfect Renaissance nudes...