Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driscoll looked awesome, pitching a perfect game for five innings. In the sixth, Columbia right-fielder Bob Cummings doubled off the fence is left-center, becoming the first (and last) Lion to reach scoring position. But Driscoll escaped easily, after a strikeout and two pop-outs to second baseman Jimmy Thomas...
...Linchan settled down, and the Crimson hitters gave him some support. Barry Cronin walked with one out in the second. Designated hitter Driscoll singled to right, and Cronin tried to take third. Dick Cummings--brother of Bob and second-game Lion starter Geoff-rifled a perfect throw to third in plenty of time to gun down Cronin. But Cronin's hard slide knocked the ball loose, allowing him to score...
...Orange Line extension. Surely an event not to be missed. Already, the Harvard Square system maps show stops like "Wellington" and "Oak Grove" in that nether world north of North Station. Images conjured up of faraway, exotic places. Never rode the Orange Line before (has anyone?); seems like the perfect time to give...
Psychologically, too, the U.S. was filled with extraordinary assurance. Having fought and vanquished two enemies about whose evil nature there was little doubt (the Nazis were perfect devils, and the Japanese of that era were quite satisfactory villains too), the U.S. was not accustomed to moral ambiguities. It was ready to take on another foe with global ambitions: international Communism. The Truman Administration launched a challenge to Communist expansion with a degree of bipartisan support that the nation had never before known in peacetime - certainly not in the turbulent periods after World War I, when Senate leaders bitterly fought President...
...There are two sides to me," Bacon explains in a recently published interview with English Art Critic David Sylvester. "I like very perfect things, for instance. I like perfection on a very grand scale. In a way I would like to live in a very grand place. But as in painting you make such a mess, I prefer to live in the mess with the memories and the damage." In photographs of the artist in his studio, we see the most famous English painter of his generation lurking in his lair. The camera flattens the owl-like eyes and avian...