Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALK, by John Hersey. Though his fictional sense is slightly askew, Author Hersey's finely tuned reportorial ear is near perfect in this Faustian spoof about a morose sophomore who temporarily strikes a bargain with the Devil...
...which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall had fought the bloodiest battle of the war. Chu Pong was a perfect place to hit the enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon, and Air Cav Commander Major General Harry W. O. Kinnard had given his Flying Horsemen orders to do just that in Operation Lincoln. But the enemy was nowhere to be found. Then a bullet...
...Canterbury-whose term has been troubled by the decline of his church's relevance for most Englishmen -the act of calling on Rome demonstrated courage and initiative. Paul summed up the encounter as "one of friendship and a move toward union, if not yet a meeting of perfect unity." As the prelates parted, Paul slipped off his diamond-and-emerald episcopal ring and gave it to Michael Ramsey...
...TIME has the most sensitive and intelligent motion picture criticism of any publication I read. And the astonishing thing is that your judgments are always in perfect taste; you are always correct. At least, TIME always agrees with...
What made the pews even more difficult to believe was that the day had begun with almost letter-perfect precision. And now, after the flawless twin launch of the Agena target vehicle and the Gemini, after making space rendezvous seem almost routine, and after the first successful docking of two spaceships, something had gone wrong...