Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. Because she writes with delicacy and precision and never succumbs to the obvious, Author Hazzard has produced a haunting and near-perfect first novel about the brief affair in Italy of two not-so-young, not-so-passionate lovers...
...Your remarks on contemporary thought are the best defense for Thomism I have seen in a long time. Paradoxically, we still must look to a "medieval man" for solutions to the key 20th-century problems. In Thomism we find perfect solutions to the nature of the world, man, God, the after life, and moral norms that contemporary man, if he wishes to be meaningful to himself, must consider...
Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
...university is the perfect place to link medical advance with progress in the social sciences, because here there is time for experimentation with ways in which to approach the problem of helping the largest number of people," he said...
...when Jack Garrity rammed in a perfect pass across the crease from Bob Fredo at 11:15 the slaughter was on. By the time the first period ended Harvard had a 4-0 lead, and the only question remaining was how many scalps Cooney Weiland's boys would...