Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most often bad-mouthed and maligned, it is also the most feared and respected. At full strength and without a hand tied behind its back, it could be the perfect answer to the Cubans in Africa...
...wrote brilliant religious music for Louis XIV that is seldom heard today. This recording celebrates Charpentier's majestic trumpet flourishes and garlands of intertwined, polyphonic passages. The resplendent voices of the King's Choir-recorded in the King's College 500-year-old chapel, with its perfect acoustics-would have pleased the Sun King...
...although there is access to the mighty Atlantic, Walden Pond in Concord is the perfect place to reconvene with nature. You're better off staying away from the little kiddie beach area, but there's lots of places to park yourself around the pond. And yes, the stone foundations for Thoreau's house are marked off in the woods, on the far side of the pond away from the beach...
...Harvard junior varisty kept the Crimson's perfect afternoon intact with a 28-second annihilation of their Yale counterparts, setting the stage for the varsity marathon that everyone had come for in the first place...
...identity as "a second birth" or "psychological birth" that occurs around the age of 18 months. In the first four months of life, says Kaplan, the baby is merged with the mother in "the bliss of unconditional love" that later becomes the model for adult conceptions of ecstasy and perfect union...