Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, Mr. Wallace, as a possible Presidential aspirant, must weigh considerations of practical politics. His timing must be perfect, for if he hopes to succeed, he must offer any plan he might formulate at the politically "right" instant...
...Fruit. There was still much planting and cultivation to be done before Brazil would enjoy all the fruits of perfect freedom. So far Congress had failed to make laws translating constitutional guarantees into reality. Said a carioca: "The Constitution promises us a lot of things but we haven't got them yet." Unions are still dominated by the Government under old, repressive Vargas decrees. Only half of Brazil's 5,500,000 school-age children can go to school...
...time, Claudia occupied a star's dressing room, sang the long and difficult part of Marguerite to her father's Mephistopheles in the San Francisco Opera Association's performance of Faust. Greying, 55-year-old Ezio had rehearsed her privately until she was note-and letter-perfect. He wanted to be sure: "I am not one to enthuse. I won't overrate anything. You never can say it is in the bag, until it is, is that...
...Sister Ruth apparently loves neither one and is loved by neither. Onetime leader of Germany's Communists, she was tossed out of the party in 1926 and now edits an anti-Stalinist newsletter in the U.S. Gerhart she has described as "the perfect terrorist type," Hanns "a Communist in every philosophical sense of the word." Hanns in turn calls her his "former sister" and Gerhart refers to her as a member of a "rogue and rat gallery...
...When Harvard Came of Age" steals the issue. Norman S. Poser has spun the several threads of Cambridge life during President Eliot's early reign into a completely readable yarn. The perfect compound of serious aspects, such as Eliot's introduction of the professor's name into the course booklet, with light strokes from the local color of the day makes it tops for its kind. If the description of the hazers' "Bloody Monday" doesn't amuse, the tales of erstwhile room decor surely will...