Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat is convincing-but only so long as a potential enemy accepts its basic premise. What if he decides that his scientists and engineers have built a practically perfect defense so that he will not be wiped out by a retaliatory attack? This would obviously disturb the "balance of terror" that has preserved an uneasy nuclear peace for the past two decades. Some American military men argue that any "defensive" Russian ABM system may actually be a sign of belligerence, a signal that its builders are preparing to make the first strike, while getting ready to ride...
...most burning concern at the moment is simply growing up. It has not been easy. His father, aware of the rigors of the concert life, never encouraged him to become a musician. But in a family that rewarded the children with a nickel if they could sing a pitch-perfect F sharp first thing each morning, Peter's future was certainly predictable.* "I first thought of being a composer," he says. "Then I thought about conducting. Then, gradually, I became resigned to being a pianist." At the age of eleven, he entered Philadelphia's Curtis Institute and studied...
...practical soul. He started his adult life in the 1760s as a saddle maker and clock mender, switched to portraiture only after he discovered that he could earn as much as ?10 per painting, which was much "better than with my other trades." When he went to London to perfect his technique with Benjamin West, he was irritated by the highflown esthetic palaver that he heard. "It is generally an adopted opinion," he noted disdainfully, "that genius for the fine arts is a particular gift and not an acquirement...
...Crimson profited from the trade when at 18:41 Garrity spectacularly carried the puck the length of the ice. He fooled Murray Watkinson, Orr's replacement, and pinpointed a bullet into the goal's lower right corner. Only a perfect shot could pass Dryden last night...
Harvard remains undefeated in Ivy squash this season, and with only the Yale match remaining, it has cinched its eighth first-place finish in the last nine years. Yesterday's victory over Princeton also revenges the 5-4 loss to the Tigers last season, which spoiled the Crimson's perfect season and forced it to share the Ivy title with Penn...