Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of Yang and Lee is a perfect example of this type of learning. Their work was largely a product of individual thought and research which was, nevertheless, strongly influenced by talks with other members and professors. The result was a new theory which sheds much light on the fundamental nature of the physical universe, and yet the total result, at least symbolically, is more than that. A new theory was born, but in the process the entire community shared in the function of learning, as indeed it does at all times...
...Social Relations Department, in many ways, provided the perfect home for a man of McCord's intellectual curiosity and scope. McCord terms himself a social psychologist, but as he points out, social psychology is a diffuse field. Others find more trouble categorizing him, Allport describes him as "A very broad-gauged fellow, I don't know what to call him. He demonstrates the goal of the department...
...poetry, which was banned by the Catholic church because it was too independent of the church in its thought, was a point of departure for later 16th century poets, according to Guillen. Three hundred years later, the French poet Charles Baudelaire considered St. John of the Cross "the perfect poet...
...Buttonhook Service" in the Pushbutton Age was indeed a great service to your readers. However, I wonder if we were not closer to "the perfect, unbreakable machine" back in 1950 than we are now. Are we not losing ground? Is progress in reverse gear? As Groucho Marx once said to the woman who was approaching 40: "From which side?" The only dependable gadgets in my home are the old ones. Why could we build such quality in years past and not today? Who sabotaged...
...century-the Loeb-Leopold murder case. Told in 20 scenes and lasting some three and a half hours, Compulsion begins just after two young homosexuals have, with long-calculated wantonness, killed a 14-year-old boy. There follow revelations of self-styled supermen who had dreamed of committing a perfect crime; of gay, violent, vicious Artie Straus (Richard Loeb) and his "superior slave," Judd Steiner (Nathan Leopold); of how imperfect a crime the two had actually committed; of their dissension as danger looms, their behavior as detection narrows; of the fantasy worlds in which both had lived. There is finally...