Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening until 3 o'clock tomorrow morning the class of 1928 and its guests will make merry in Memorial Hall, for the twenty-second annual Junior Dance. Finishing touches are being applied to the hall and box decorations, but by the first dance this evening all will be in perfect order, and Memorial Hall will once more have donned its festive garb...
...signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting of lecturers are pleased these days with the brilliant countenances before them...
Finally, at the stroke of noon, the Speaker's gavel fell; the Navy Band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by A Perfect Day, My Old Kentucky Home, The Sidewalks of New York Slowly, the House chamber emptied. . . . The janitors went to work...
Connell characters, as perfect and unreal as fashion advertisements, achieve life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe...
Like all such realizations of pretty philosophies, New Lanark was far from perfect. It was, nevertheless, an improvement and a guide toward further effort. Due partly to petty jealousies and partly to his own intractable character Owen eventually gave up all interest in New Lanark. He attempted to form a similar colony at New Harmony, Indians but it failed completely, one obvious reason being the inharmonious state of the American frontier...