Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortcomings of the book almost naturally spring from the different narrative techniques. In the middle of a long, sensitive description of Charles Neumiller's burial of his father, Faulkner's style intrudes: "Clarence carrying o'clock twelve." The more experimental parts of the book are far from perfect. At times there are too many lists of food and too many clumsy attempts at representing noises in onomatopoeic form--for example, "creer chee, creaca chee, creesh shee" to convey the sound of shoes on a sidewalk. At other points in the novel, the symbols are too apparent. The silver dollars which...
...from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points out in his catalogue essay, these weathered timbers were "a near-perfect analogue of the wide brush stroke in the painting of Kline and de Kooning...
Bell scored for the Crimson at 5:35 of the first period after a perfect pass across from former Malden-Catholic star (via Choate) Hughes. Harvard jumped to a 2-0 lead with Bolduc in the penalty box at 9:44, as Carr tipped a slap shot from defenseman Kevin O'Donaghue past Olympic netminder Jim Warden...
...self-confident leader with "only a circle of one to con sult, myself." At the same time, after she became Premier, Mrs. Meir admits that she "could certainly understand the reservations of those people in the country who thought that a 70-year-old grandmother was hardly the perfect candidate to lead a 20-year-old state...
...story is the story of a woman journalist imbued with parental ideals of the "perfect marriage" with a Prince Charming, of a woman who grows to realize that such false expectations breed only hurt and anger. Suffering the conflict between living her own life and playing the role her mother has outlined for her, Braudy feels simultaneously selfish and guilty, angry and deceptive. Explaining her discordant emotions, she writes "We are becoming more equal, and as an emerging equal, I displease him. Feeling his resentment, I'm angry, yet I worry that I am hogging the spotlight in an unwifely...