Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album, in the song "Meeting Across The River," capsules the false bravado of a Jersey hood asking his friend Eddie for a ride through the tunnel to New York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song's build up to Springsteen...
Bankrolled by assurances from government agencies and contract infusions from the Pentagon brass, dependent Lockheed is a twisted model of traditional American "competitive free enterprise." The "perfect competition" of an Ec 10 problem set disappears into the power and reach of the corporate Goliath, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the defense industry...
...cultural (WASP) origins, on the one hand, and its national power, on the other. All things given, as an institution's national power increases its demand for cultural specificity decreases. No doubt this dynamic of Americanization or American institutional democratization--if I can call it such--is never perfect at any given point in time: it is always an approximation of a longrun norm or ideal, exhibiting much cultural...
...nights with a high sky and incandescent stars, just right for playing out romances and baseball games. The vast field stretched hugely and serenely in its allotted 500-foot arc, far below her gently swaying calves. And the white light from the towering black iron lamps stained everything into perfect hue: the brown and green of calves and grass, and the wine, orange, white of the players' uniforms. The colors collected perfectly into 50 baseball players for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians clubs, the field in Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, and the two tanned legs of a girl...
FLEXIBILITY ON TESTING. The perfect trial has never been achieved," says the report. Thus, qualified professionals must be allowed to exercise more discretion in the investigational use of new drugs. Neither researcher believes that drugs should be cleared without testing merely because a few desperate patients with nothing to lose demand them. But both agree that "if a respectable minority of professional opinion believes in the utility of a drug, then it ought at least to be available to those who believe...