Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movies try to "can" dramatic events and dish them out later for distant audiences. They can never be perfect reproductions of reality, but the margin between the original scene and the projected one has narrowed step by step. The new devices-3-D, wide screen, stereophonic sound-are further steps toward reality...
Poets & Pronunciation. Entering the Civil Service after Cambridge, Eddie Marsh soon became known as "the perfect private secretary," first to Joseph Chamberlain, later, in 1905, to Winston Churchill, then Under Secretary in the Colonial Office. Eddie knew all Britain's greats and near-greats, dashed from dinner to dinner drumming the names of his favorite artists into their ears. He followed Churchill to the Board of Trade, finally to the Admiralty, eventually won a knighthood in 1937 for his services...
...winner of the senior race is awarded the Darcey Memorial trophy, and is given an 18-inch scale model of a shell, in perfect detail...
...down through an old manhole to the basement, poke through the brick wall, ransack deserted stores and return to the jailhouse. Why didn't they just keep right on going to freedom? Reasoned Sheriff Perry for his prisoners: why break up a good thing when you have a perfect alibi...
...most valuable stroke-saving shot in the game" (head down, grip strong, feet close together). Says Armour: "It is probably the reason the President gets around the golf course in the respectable scores I read about." Ike is also a hot shot out of a bunker, with "practically perfect" technique (feet flat, head down, full follow-through). Says Armour: "Perhaps President Eisenhower has spent a lot of time in sand traps...