Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same token, an increasing number of our parents are finding it possible to set limits on their children, to ask of them as well as give to them, and to regard them more realistically-as messengers of hope but not by any means guarantors of a near-perfect world to come...
Austrian Catholic Theologian Adolf Holl also believes that the essentials the church sought in saints have not altered. The saint must exhibit a heroic degree of virtue akin to the asceticism that ancient athletes and warriors strove to perfect. And the works of a saint must be out of the ordinary, almost unique. He or she should have a charisma or aura, the kind of radiance that was classically symbolized by a halo. The life of a saint should display a certain personal serenity...
...photograph like "Mrs. Mulhall and Child, Ozark Family, Arkansas, 1935" may seem casually taken, yet it is a perfect picture. The mother, child and doll are incongruous in size, expression, and surface texture. They are also rather desperately poor. Another photograph of these subjects could have been chaotic or shocking or both; Shahn's is tied together formally by intricate series of triangular rhythms and rescued from pathos by the contentment of the child and the alert concern of its mother...
...pass through its entire lower half. It's near-wilderness in a lot of places. There's no traffic, and you can go as fast as you want. Walker Percy called Mississippi a paradise, and he was right; it's the best place on the route for perfect highway buzz, cruising along, alone, the land stretching out before you, feeling completely in control of your whereabouts and direction...
Then there are those who have tasted athletics and decided that it is not for them. Paul A. Cantor '66, assistant professor of English, was a varsity fencer while at Harvard and compiled a perfect record of zero wins and eight losses during his career. When asked what he does now for exercise, Cantor replied, "Are you kidding? Now I do nothing. The closest thing to athletics I do now is foosball." Cantor quickly added that with time and effort he has become "an excellent goalie with a good defensive stance...