Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...briefly, an appearance by Colin Blakely, an actor of consummate accomplishment. Blakely - who plays a Venetian official - has a self-effacing power that makes him one of the best actors now at work on the English stage. One would have thought those qualities qualification enough for the perfect Galileo...
...weeks ago Ford, with a stroke of the pen, raised the tariff on imported oil by $1 per bbl. as the first step of an increase that would reach a maximum of $3 per bbl. on April 1. Democrats thought that they had the perfect riposte to this presidential assertiveness. The liberals on Ways and Means adopted a bill postponing the tariff hike for 90 days. Then they linked the measure with a boost in the national debt ceiling that the Administration had sought in order to finance its ballooning deficit (see box). The Democrats reasoned that Ford could...
Dave Bell, Jim, McMahon and Steve Degdigian took over the spotlight 90 seconds later, combining on a perfect passing play. Bell swept into the corner with the puck and directed a centering pass to McMahon, who then slipped the disc to Degdigian in front. Three to nothing after...
...reveals much about what he sought as a collector. Daniel Robbins, in the foreword to Max Loehr's completely illustrated, scholarly catalogue of the exhibition, remarks that Winthrop "believed in an artistic faculty essentially independent of time and place; he also felt that the making of beautiful and perfect objects utterly transcended their function in a strictly utilitarian sense as evidence of a way of life." The more than four hundred jades in the collection date from the Neolithic period (to ca. 1550 B.C.) to the Late Eastern Chou dynasty (480-222 B.C.) and they are presented with a minimum...
...ownership and endowment allowed, Crane and all other entrepreneurs looked across the street to Harvard Trust for fiscal leadership. Robert R. Duncan, president of the bank during the fifties, a man whom business people in the Square still remember as a "mover and a shaker," proved to be the perfect spearhead. Insurance man Dyer grumbles about the current leadership scene saying that if you asked him who could move things in Harvard Square today, ten minutes later he still wouldn't be able to come up with a name. But, Dyer points out quickly, "If you had a problem...