Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, Countess Aurelia--the title personage of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot (La folle de Chaillot). Giraudoux wrote three versions of this play shortly before he died in 1944. Had he lived longer he could not have improved it much; indeed, the mad tea party is absolutely perfect. He never wrote a greater play, and only his Electre can perhaps equal...
...been well said that the emphasis in international life must shift from torts to contracts. And also we must perfect a machinery for a settlement of international disputes-not occasionally but on a total basis-under a tribunal or system of tribunals which will command general confidence as to the fairness of their judgments and whose procedures will be supported by a public opinion which will not tolerate a departure from them. We must establish an era where nations as well as individuals are subject to justice under...
...highlights of the entire production is John Graef as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. With Graef's rich voice, excellent enunciation, and unctuously sinister air, it is difficult to imagine more perfect casting...
...Britain's pace-setting Mike Blagrove led the field into the first lap on the dead sprint. In third place was Ibbotson, his chest stuck out like a bantam cock's, his legs and arms weaving perfect circles, running like a mechanical toy. The time for the first quarter-mile: 0:55.3, just 9.5 sec. slower than the world record. "When I heard that time," said Ibbotson later, "I felt sick." At the half-mile mark. the time was a phenomenal 1:55.8. Then Blagrove faded. When the bell clanged at the start of the final quarter-mile...
...parents walked quietly about their new home. "Oh, my! It's too good for us," said bespectacled Alec Dodd of Toledo, Ohio. In the Tropical Room, their eyes lit up when they saw the bar. "Look at these low sinks!" exclaimed Balthazar Trumpi of Glarus, Switzerland. "This is perfect for the nursery. In the sinks the children can play at washing dishes, and join in the community activity." Soon the ballroom had been converted to a schoolroom, the basement bar into a workshop. Within the next week 62 more Brothers had arrived and settled into their new communal home...