Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singing," says Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, "has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Last week 57 examples of her kind of song went on view in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Each one had the contrived spontaneity of music, and in each the melody of line and color meant more than the bones, blossoms, skyscrapers, barns, crosses and canyon walls she used for lyrics...
...social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example in the First Lady of Washington's Diplomatic Corps [Brazilian Sculptress Senhora Maria Martins...
...Harry Truman himself. On Jan. 17 he offered the figure as a compromise in the steel controversy. Its upward curve proved just right: plump enough for Phil Murray (who had demanded 25? an hour), slender enough for Ben Fairless (who had refused to give more than 15?). The perfect 18½ has been the darling of most strike arbiters ever since...
...Crimson batters opened up in the seventh, when Harper replaced Snow on the mound for BU. After Jack Coppinger singled and Armen Essayan put down a perfect bunt, Phelan walked to load the bases. A double to center by Saul Mariaschin and a single from Don Swegan's bat brought in three runs...
...weekends. He saw the crowds and colors of November Saturday afternoons and smelled the mixed aroma of burning leaves, Chanel, and rye hovering over Soldiers Field. Pretty girls there would be by the score, by the six dozen--the "golden girls." The bright lights and gay scenes revolved in perfect time to the Six Little Tailors, and for once, Vag smiled at the jingle...