Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick manifestations of mainstream American culture carried too many bad associations with it and became too tiring to handle. A hippie backlash. It seemed like the only thing to do was tank up and join the fray. Bronson was surely one of the heavies: his chunk figure was the perfect vehicle for the fascist, amoral tactics he used to smash rival crooks, fight mercenary struggles, snare women by ignoring them. It wasn't that you couldn't tell what was going on inside his head-you couldn't even tell whether that concrete block on his shoulders was a head...
...absolute consonance is a state of chromatic plenitude." As Rosen points out, Ewartung, one of Schoenberg's early works, ends with all the instruments of the orchestra playing accelerating chromatic scales up and down until a "state of chromatic plenitude" has been created. This state, according to Rosen, is perfect consonance and gives the piece a sense of finality...
...freshman soccer team ran its perfect record to 6-0 yesterday, outscoring Andover, 6-4, in wild contest...
...overweening ambition and demonstrates that a good girl has no time for all those fancy European airs when she could be back in the ghetto, helping her man (the agreeable Billy Dee Williams) win political office. For Mahogany, that kind of moral-cynical, and wholly bogus-is the perfect clincher. Jay Cocks...
...couple of Big Green defenders, taking it all the way to the Dartmouth 19 before being hauled down. Harvard couldn't bring it home though, and called on kicker Mike Lynch. Lynch split the uprights with a 17 yarder, and that was the game, 24-10. Incidentally, Lynch was perfect once again on Saturday, 3 for 3 PAT's plus the field goal. Charlie Brickley, move over...