Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austrian-born John Maass, the American Victorian buildings "are perfect symbols of an era which was not given to understatement. They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of mid-19th century America. Most of our own buildings stand on the shifting quicksand of insecurity-Victorian architecture was founded on the rock of superb confidence...
...followed all my life-to be practical, not idealistic. My critics always want the ideal. If everything comes as you like it, what's the use of ability? This is my doctrine: never be an idealist, use what's available, don't wait till everything is perfect and miss your chance...
...Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings were packed for storage and loaded on trucks. The best were sent to the salt mines near Salzburg, Austria, where Buchner's careful investigation had found perfect temperature and humidity, and a bombproof mountain on top. Director Buchner's foresight paid off. The Alte Pinakothek was damaged by fire bombs in 1943, had its roof blown off in July, 1944 and, on Dec. 17, 1944, took three direct hits, was reduced to ruins...
When Gen Ed was adopted it was not looked on as final and perfect, and there was a feeling that the program would need a reconsideration after some years of practice. Ten years then seemed a proper interval, and that would put the review any time after the next academic year, for General Education went into permanent status with 1949-50. Owen says that the committee would welcome such a review, but it seems that if such a study is to make sense, both the teaching of science and the place of languages should be carefully examined first. Excepting...
...point up the Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack safely at USIA to prove that the Democrats are all for economy. Finally-and here came the perfect touch-Johnson came up with the idea of handing over to the State Department (which the House had cut by $47 million) nearly all of the $16 million lopped off the USIA requests. That would prove that Johnson and his Democrats had the country's best interests at heart...