Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countdown was perfect. Up from the launch pad of Cape Canaveral at 10:23 one morning last week roared a 90-ft., 52½-ton Thor-Able rocket, lifting cleanly into an overcast sky with steadily increasing acceleration. Two minutes and 40 seconds later the second stage fired smoothly, then the third. Out from the sides of the globular pay load unfolded four strange paddles. As the "paddlewheel satellite" tumbled through space at 171 revolutions per minute, 8,000 solar cells in the 20-inch-square vanes picked up the sun's energy to charge the chemical batteries, send...
Miss Harris is the perfect pixie. With a toss of her head, or a shrug of her shoulders, she conveys the essence of boyish awkwardness. Her Peter is straightforward and innocent, and she seldom resorts to coyness. Consequently she avoids the pitfall of appearing too "cute," and is, instead, totally captivating and convincing. In short, she is Peter...
Working with a cast of varied ability, director Balch has staged a lively, amusing production, utilizing the arena stage with ease. Frederick Blais, as Oscar Wolfe, the devoted manager of the Cavendish clan, is just about perfect. Sporting an hillarious Viennese accent, impressive gestures, and clean decisive movement, he turns in the most polished performance I have seen at Tufts this season...
...form of classical tragedy, Mr. Miller has introduced a pseudo-Greek chorus in the character of Alfieri, the neighborhood lawyer who comments on and occasionally participates in the action. This part is intelligently and movingly played by Dean Gitter, though one might wish he had chosen either to perfect or to ignore the Italian accent. His last soliloquoy was particularly effective, I felt...
...museums are like aircraft; no one knows how to build the perfect...