Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With no house lacrosse at Harvard, many former high school players have had to give up the sport, feeling that they were just not good enough to play on a varsity level. A JV team could be the perfect answer for these men and also for beginners, for whom it would provide important game experience...
...Common Market countries. The pilot of the R.A.F. Comet had heard a suspicious thump as the plane climbed out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport and, fearing a blown-out nose tire, had radioed ahead for emergency help. It was not needed. The plane touched down in a perfect landing, with only the adhering feathers of a Luxembourgian Redwing to show for the scare...
Underneath the hoyden there is a serious and remarkably mature young woman who knows exactly what she wants. For a while at least, she wants all the fun of being single, and she wants a career. In her rare brooding moments, she worries over how to perfect her craft. "I find myself occasionally elaborating on things a bit too much," she says. "I hate my voice most. It's always higher than I expect and more childish. It annoys me. The best things I do happen suddenly by accident. I have to be acting something out with other people...
...Harvard image seems to demand such a mythical being, and the fruitless search leads to general exasperation and thence to the kind of self-defeating outcome we have just witnessed. For what of the perfect professor, a degree program is scrapped and the future range of experience and interests within the Social Relations Department is radically limited. This kind of assertion of academic purity is deeply detrimental to teaching, practice and research in psychology. Robert May Teaching Fellow in Social Relations
...picked young assistants because he was sure his kind of admissions office would be a perfect testing ground for their administrative skills and interest in students. Monro was hired by Bender in 1946, when all this was still an idea; eight years later, Monro was in charge of financial aid. And that year, with the same instinct, Bender hired Glimp...