Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With The Idiot the Brattle is showing George K. Arthur's The Stranger Left No Card. Winner of the 1953 Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prize, this vignette tells the story of an eccentric prestidigitator who commits an almost perfect crime. It provides a pleasant balance to the program...
...stern of the boat, which usually represents the major power in a shell, has been cleared of big men in favor of smaller men with more perfect form...
...pick three which are as different as possible both in character, and success. Bard, which we feel has largely failed, is young, ultra-progressive and financially on the rocks. Amherst, which we feel has been highly successful, is old, conservative and wealthy. Middlebury, in the middle, is a perfect amalgam of both the advantages and disadvantages of a small college...
...year studying and getting to know each other. CJ In a new encyclical titled Sacra Vir-ginitas Pope Pius XII emphasized the superiority of virginity to marriage for clergy and religious orders and for those of the laity who would consecrate themselves entirely to God. "Sacred virginity and perfect chastity consecrated to the service of God," the encyclical said, "certainly is for the Church one of the most precious treasures that its Author has left to it as an inheritance...
Behind his angry lordship, officers and troopers of the Light Brigade were being torn to shreds. "Death was coming fast, and the Light Brigade was meeting death in perfect order; as a man or horse dropped, the riders on each side . . . opened out; as soon as they had ridden clear, the ranks closed again." Words of command "rang out as on the parade ground: 'Close in to your center. Back the right flank! Keep up. Private Smith. Left squadron, keep back. Look to your dressing.' Until at last, as the ranks grew thinner and thinner, only one command...