Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designed to punish labor but to keep labor within bounds. Taft had prepared himself to follow that line. He knew exactly what he wanted to do; he was not swayed by emotion. With his colleague Joe Ball he hammered out the bill he wanted-by no means a perfect bill, but a reasonable one which Harry Truman might find it hard to veto...
...week of great turmoil at home, the U.S. people discovered that their Government had, at last, a working foreign policy. It was not a perfect policy; it had not yet been translated into success. It was a policy formed in response to events, in defensive opposition to the dark self-interest of Russia. It still groped for specific solutions. But in outline and intent it was there...
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Koussevitzky uses four times as many musicians as Bach intended, which may scare the purists away. The recording, made in Koussevitzky's music shed at Tanglewood, Mass., is just about perfect. Performance: good...
They had chosen one of the very few things in the world that are both great and perfect. As playwriting, Oedipus is as compact as dynamite. As drama, it tramples down its own large horrors, mounting to a world of austere terror beyond them. All the blind helplessness of man's fate is in it, and all the tragic suffering of his meeting...
...Dark Corner (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of Hollywood marriage of Laura (epigrams and lethal whams) and Murder, My Sweet (thugs, drugs and hugs). The alliance is not a perfect match...