Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department for the CATS embodied what to many linguists appeared rather radical ideas. They have stressed the colloquial form of languages studied, and have demanded ability to speak the language fluently, accurately, and with an acceptable approximation to a native pronunciation. The War Department, moreover, wants practically perfect auditory comprehension of the language as spoken by natives...
...Voice makes it plain that these are minor difficulties. With a serene and sometimes hypnotic eye, he insists that his attorneys have a perfect defense-church members have no employer but God, thus are plainly outside the jurisdiction of things like...
...theory of occupation was that an Allied commission representing all four powers could treat Germany as one country under one government. On paper, the arrangement was perfect: General Eisen hower for the U.S., and Russian, British and French members yet to be named would clear all common questions, send common directives to the four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also...
...This," said a cultured voice in perfect English, "is the Lebanese delegation. I wonder if you could help me. I'm supposed to be press relations officer here, but I'm really a political scientist and I'm not sure how these things are done. I've spent all day completing a statement, rather important in our view. What do I do next...
Successful Rebel. Vincente Minnelli has a number of predilections which normally don't go down too well in Holly wood. Boom shots, for instance, are generally under suspicion, both esthetically and economically. A boom shot must either be perfect or be scrapped. Constant use of a finder, too, is regarded as an affectation. Further, Minnelli often reports at the end of a day's work with only one shot perfected, and he is likely to make such remarks as: "The accidental juxtaposition of people and things makes for surrealism. The surrealists are the court painters of the period...