Word: perfecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dismissing the Soviet arguments as "inventions" and "schoolboy sins against logic," the academy, which is composed of the country's leading intellectual figures, warned against the Soviet Union's unwillingness to allow Communism to accommodate to change. Said the academy: "The metaphysical conception of Socialism as a perfect system leads logically to the conclusion that any criticism of deficiencies and contradictions [in the system] is considered indiscriminately as revisionist and anti-Socialist and is identified with counterrevolution and reaction...
...Harvard cross country team hustled to its eighth consecutive victory of the season yesterday, sweeping the first nine places to outdistance Dartmouth on a soggy Franklin Park course by a perfect score...
...flight continued without serious problems, an air of heady optimism began to pervade the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Said NASA's Christopher Kraft: "The performance of the vehicle to date has been very close to perfect." At week's end, officials were hinting that if Apollo 7 continued to perform faultlessly all the way through its splashdown this week, the planned lunar-orbital mission of Apollo 8 might well be advanced by two weeks...
...nation ever began with a richer inheritance or more radiant prospects than the United States of America. But living up to the promise of a perfect childhood can be a terrible strain. Everything achieved afterward tends to appear as anticlimax: the course of adult life seems to run depressingly downhill...
Found and Lost. Sharp-tongued and harder-hitting, Beard shattered the myth of America's perfect past by a frontal assault on the Founding Fathers. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, he argued that the great document, far from promoting the general welfare, was the reactionary work of wealthy men who in 1787 stood to profit from the creation of a strong, central and, above all, solvent government (nearly half the signers had lent the Government money). By suggesting that economic interests play a strong role in human events, Beard helped bring American history closer to the bitter...