Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this near-perfect first novel, 32-year-old Author Hazzard proves that she writes like no one except herself. And she proves it the hard way by choosing a worn theme that a single sentimental slip could have transformed into a ladies'-magazine romance. Sophie, not-too-young, not-too-attractive, visits Italy and meets Tancredi, a dapper, middle-aged architect living apart from his wife and family. Because Sophie seems to him like a piece of important information he must acquire, Tancredi sets out to seduce her. Sophie finally, almost wearily, succumbs. Then the cool lovers discover that...
...central impact of the mass murder lies in a double mischance; first, that Hickock and Smith should ever have found one another, each being the perfect complement in a mutuality predicated on a "big score"; second, that the Clutter family should have been chosen as victims, so incongruous a happening that it made Holcomb, Kansas, feel "like being told there...
...consider family history and local usage in weighing names. Judge Sévenier defends the name game as necessary to protect infants against "inconceivable and often absurd names." Sévenier himself winces at the father in Savoie whose surname was Cocu-Cuckold, and who named his son Parfait-Perfect. The Republic could do nothing: Parfait was a saint who has been revered in France since...
...Kent Parrot, Pete Waldinger and Ben Smith which provided the impetus. Smith brought the puck down the middle of the ice, and made a beautiful pass to Waldinger, who was all alone at the right point. He skated to within 15 feet of the not and then blasted a perfect shot which left goalie Jack Ferreira gasping. The time of the score...
...Loved One fails only when it gets serious and when it tries to throw a big space-age joke in with the rest of them. Taken as a whole, the movie is not the best; it will not run away with awards. But the parts are just fine--perfect for reading and exam periods. The dead man on whose chest Miss Thanatogenos and Mr. Joyboy exchange notes could be your Ec 1 section...