Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Very Good Eddie is a picture-post card show, done without a single lapse of style. Kern's songs are sprightly and unhackneyed, Greene's lyrics are clever, and Dan Siretta's dances are period perfect. Everyone deserves the pleasure of this able cast's dandy company, and David Merrick, who used to send out macabre holiday cards, is obviously wishing all of us a happy...
...Perfect Woman. In his attempt to be dutifully definitive, Biographer Clark plods doggedly, day by day, through all 98 years of Russell's life: from his miserably unhappy childhood spent in the morbid solitude of his grandmother's house ("She would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead") to his final years as the thundering, latter-day Ezekiel of the nuclear disarmament movement. The result is a work that is more thorough than thoughtful...
...Katharine Tait, Russell's daughter by Dora, understands what linked the brilliant young nationalist of the Principia Mathematica (who with his teacher Whitehead and his student Wittgenstein redirected modern philosophy away from German idealism) to the political and sexual provocateur of later years: "All his life he sought perfection: perfect mathematical truth, perfect philosophical clarity, a perfect formula for society, and a perfect woman to live with in a perfect human relationship...
...were those who insisted that it was something more than glossy s.-and-m. porn, that every little welt raised on its nameless heroine's body had a meaning all its own. The novel, it was earnestly proposed, explored the paradox that only in slavery can one find perfect freedom. A flogging here, a gang shag there, these are a small price to pay for release from the endless naggings of free will...
...beyond caring. Her madness was regenerative, its own reason for being. Adele wandered through the native quarter in Leopoldine's dress, now torn and filthy. When she saw Pinson again, she looked through him without recognition. She had turned her own life into a perfect, dreadful paradigm of 19th century romanticism...