Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked like a deadlock was imminent, but Murphy flipped a perfect centering pass as the clock spun into its last quarter minute, and Johnson slammed...
...teams scored four times oach in the wild second period. Ted Carey scored for Yale on a deflection at 0:22. At the two-minute mark, Yale center Wint Ritchie made a perfect pass from the right side, and Pete Markle slapped it past Bill Fitzsimmons without ever bothering to slow the pass down. Less than two minutes inter, George Semler found himself well covered by Harvard defenseman Ben Smith, so he took a difficult backhander from 20 feet out. Smith partially deflected it, and it caught the upper right corner...
...Marxist influence is also present in the structure of the play as a whole. Frantz, like Geotz of The Devil and Good Lord and Hugo of Dirty Hands, is liberated by his choice to face life as it is, which for Sartre meant choosing Marxism. "Going downstairs" is a perfect symbol for the acceptance of political participation by so many of Sartre's other characters, and suicide always follows their conversion as it does Frantz's. Yet Sartre still clings to both philosophies. For Frantz in the end escapes mauvaise-foi, his refusal to accept the reality of his past...
...Sloan preferred it that way. Though he was friend and adviser to U.S. Presidents, he treated them with the same cool courtesy that he showed toward used-car dealers. He carefully answered all letters that came to him, but, whether to a close friend or perfect stranger, he always signed himself as "Alfred P. Sloan." In his autobiography, My Years with General Motors, which started as a series of articles in FORTUNE and became a book that sold 50,000 copies, he passed on to would-be tycoons his secrets of success. "Keep an open mind," he wrote, "and work...
...founder of the Congress of Racial Equality and its national director since 1961, James Farmer helped perfect such civil rights weapons as the sit-in and the freedom ride. But Farmer has decided that "more sophisticated weaponry" is now required, and he is resigning as CORE's leader next month to direct a Government-aided literacy and job-training program. Freedom-When? is part tribute to the organization he grew up with, part testament of his beliefs, part personal memoir of 46 years, and part civil rights manual...