Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Return to Paradise (Aspen; United Artists) would have made the perfect sequel for South Pacific if Rodgers & Hammerstein had draped it with some tunes...
...long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern captain that his speech at Gettysburg was not, after all, a failure. In tone, the stories range from Ring Lardner's deadpan barbershop talk in Haircut to the old-school nourishes of New Orleans' George W. Cable in Madame Delphine...
...Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect tension balance, and it has withstood the storms for over half a century, far beyond the life of steel windmills built at the same time...
Third Generation. The man who performs those miracles protests that he is not at all perfect, but the fact is that he is a phenomenal musician who has been playing ever since three, when he razzed out his first toot on the horn. At twelve, he began to study seriously, kept at his work through World War II (Royal Air Force Band), and is now first horn with London's Philharmonia Orchestra...
...opposed principles, and expressed them with clarity and passion. Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his naivete, believed that man had been all good in "a state of nature," and that he was only corrupted by wrong social institutions. Sweep these away, substitute institutions blueprinted by "reason," and man emerges perfect or, at least, readily perfectible...