Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With perfect timing, gangs of Algerian fellaghas (rebel bandits) raided French police stations and stormed the railroad station on the outskirts of Constantine (pop. 119,000). Fourteen Frenchmen standing at a bar were blown to bits by a bomb. The fellaghas called themselves "The Army of Liberation"; they were joined by urban terrorists known as "Death Battalions." The rebels swept through dozens of French villages, burning, looting and killing. Scores of French civilians were knifed or torn to pieces before the troops swung into action...
...Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where it toured, and back home in Manhattan, audiences have hailed Skin ever since. Cried the New York Times's persnickety Brooks Atkinson, dean of Broadway's critics, "Perfect.'' Rejoiced the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Perhaps even the theater will survive.'' Thornton Wilder's wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth...
...remarkable characteristics-the piquant upper lines take on the diamond-point clarity of a harpsichord, while the sonatas' lower notes emerge with something like a modern piano's warmer, darker mass of tone. The total effect is a fusion of contrasting elements into a near-perfect whole...
...Their mission was to become familiar with the problems and advantages of moving themselves and their equipment by air. Within minutes, the 540 men and their heavy trucks and weapons disappeared into the yawning cargo holds, and the 20-ton planes took off over the Black Forest. It was perfect flying weather. As they flew along in tight formation, one engine of Plane 8 stuttered and cut out. The pilot requested and got permission to drop out of formation. But suddenly, after losing altitude, Plane 8 headed upwards and rammed a wing into the nose of Plane 9 overhead. There...
...Hudson River school fell from favor. Even its most grandiose productions came to seem thin, brown and finicky. They had prepared the way for equally realistic but less pretentious and literary painters-Homer, George Inness and Thomas W. Eakins. "The true purpose of the painter," said Inness with perfect assurance, "is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which the scene has made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions in visitors to the Montclair...