Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern tempers subsided-for the time being. But the incident was the perfect illustration of Bob Hannegan's election-year dilemma: how to persuade P.A.C.-hating and P.A.C.-loving Congressmen that they are all good Democrats under the skin...
...love the kids, especially the worst of them-little Tommy who seems a perfect moron but has something in him that one longs to get out. My great days are those when Tommy suddenly comes to human life. The three Mathews children, whose home is run by a woman not their father's lawful wife, who has no time to care for children even when they are sick. They have ceased to be problems and are my best students now. And so many others-poor, underprivileged, mishandled creatures, and so worth careful attention. That is what makes...
...greatest: the creation of new dramatic poetry is more important than the recreation of old. For such new poetry, movies offer the richest opportunity since Shakespeare's time, and some of them have made inspired use of the chance. But Henry V is a major achievement-this perfect marriage of great dramatic poetry with the greatest contemporary medium for expressing...
Communist Parallel. New York's Oxnam was not the only Protestant leader to keelhaul Catholicism. In London last week, Professor A. Victor Murray, president of England's Congregational Cheshunt College, said: "Rome . . . believes itself to be the perfect society. . . . Anything that furthers its interests, political or social, as well as religious, is considered to be according to the will of God. ... It is this irresponsible influence of an internationally organized society, with its headquarters in a foreign country-in this way exactly parallel to communism-that makes the Free Church Protestant evangelical witness against Rome so vitally necessary...
...Hotel New Weston, the Iranian delegation unpacked its long winter underwear. They were prepared to fight it out on Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh's line if it took all summer-and next winter too. But it might not take that long. Things looked better, though not perfect, as the UNO Security Council convened this week at Hunter College in The Bronx. A woman architect even thought she could improve the arrangement of the azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods stacked against the east wall of the conference chamber. "It looks like a Third Avenue wedding," she cried, and began to shove...