Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score. The one game which he won proved to be the only ray of hope for the United States squash delegation as Pakistan's famed pair of brothers. Hashim and Azam Khan, swept through the tournament with only this one game to mar an otherwise perfect record against all but each other...
...local basketball team is in an unaccustomed position--at the top of the Ivy League. The team's December victory at Cornell put it there, but it will be quite a job to maintain the perfect record when Dartmouth, Penn, and the Big Red again are met next week...
...test the fiber of any man: a ledge on which nothing grows, a slab of rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them lie down and wait for death or rescue. But on that bare rock in those freezing temperatures, death is almost certain to get there first...
...Such paintings as the Annunciation, endlessly copied, made Fra Angelico's reputation. They established the figure of the angel in the form that still seems most appropriate for religious art, and even today the Annunciation is rated by former Louvre Curator Germain Bazin as "no doubt the most perfect of all Fra Angelico's works." Fra Angelico found himself besieged with requests as his style became more widely known and admired. Contemporary accounts describe his reaction-he simply referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being contented with little...
...jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head, cap raised in sarcasm, spitting upon Christ. By abstracting all but the essential central image, Fra Angelico makes the eye travel through a curve of space to return endlessly to its starting point-the perfect movement theologians ascribe to the contemplative soul...