Word: perfecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read in classical Greek history and speaks six languages: Greek, Turkish, English, Spanish, French, Italian. A night person and an insomniac, he is a hypnotic raconteur and used to fascinate guests at dinner parties in Hyannisport with his recollections of Winston Churchill. Friends, particularly women, prize him as a perfect listener. Even more peripatetic than Jackie, he caroms around the world carrying only a battered attaché case and a gold-embossed red leather appointment book. Duplicate sets of clothing await him at his pieds-à-terre in Paris (on the Avenue Foch), London (Claridge's), Montevideo, Athens and Manhattan...
Impressionist David Frye has dozens of good-and bad-faces. In an election year that is not exactly fraught with levity, his tone-perfect mimicry of Richard Nixon and other political figures is the most devastating topical humor...
...talking of the poet as he sees himself; the reader sees something different. Picture a seagull unhappy, hungry for a clam. He flies in perfect beauty, a perfect grace visible to all eyes but his own. John Berryman, however difficult his own muddle may be, exhibits to us a true grace of craftsmanship and earnestness...
Roused and hungry for more goals, the Crimson tallied again less than eight minutes later. Racing through the Redmen defense, outside Ahmed Yehia dribbled down the right sideline and crossed a perfect pass onto the foot of Bogovich at the top of the penalty area. Finding daylight between two defenders, Bogovich kicked a bouncing shot into the nets to the right of Cornell's frozen goalie...
Everything went pretty much according to form last weekend, although Pennyslvania did catch Cornell with its psyche down to ruin an otherwise perfect prediction record...