Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder about John Ross. He hasn't got Lithgow's perfect timing or Erhardt's acid touch, but I've seen him be a lot funnier than he was here. I think the problem was that as Geronimo he hadn't much to hold on to. When he has a characterization to work out he can do it skillfully. Lacking that, he seemed merely to focus on the sound of his words and the sweep of his bows, and never evoked a solid character...
...gave the trackmen a perfect record on the outdoor season and the last cinder defeat suffered a Harvard squad--a 76-73 loss to the cadets last spring...
...McCarthyism is available to the intellectual today. The Government has so steadily adopted the radical programs of yesterday that some intellectuals are desperately trying to stay left of Washington and attempting, not very successfully, to create "a new radicalism." There are plenty of causes left in a far from perfect world, but they tend to be smaller and more specific. Many have turned from politics to preoccupation with "environment...
Songbe, a scruffy cluster of hamlets atop a bluff just 75 miles northeast of Saigon. As the capital of Phuoc Long province, Songbe (pop. 2,000) was a perfect target for the Communists, who would like to capture a governmental seat and proclaim their own "provisional government"-thus permitting Communist and nonaligned sympathizers to recognize their regime...
...perfect jasper ware, an unfading ceramic that also comes in green, lavender, yellow and maroon. Josiah fired more than 10,000 experiments in his kilns. What he was after was a material that could be impregnated with color throughout, rather than simply receive a surface glaze. And in cauk, a form of barium sulphate, Josiah found what he wanted. Jasper ware grew so popular that the English used it for shoebuckles, chessmen, perfume vials, bell pulls, architectural ornaments, even a mortar and pestle. Most famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase...