Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect solution is a musical-a type of film in which style (its basic currency) and ideals (its subject) have freedom without getting too heavy. Brian Kahin's new Barbara Baby is more successful than one could expect. It investigates our dreams through idealistic characters whose flair infects the film. Inventive camerawork-pixillation, fantasy sequences, beautiful cutting-establishes the characters and their Panachethrough their appearances-and simultaneously exposes their shallowness, the characters, the limitations of their flair. The film, through its characters, maintains the ideal balance between being moving and shallow, romantic and absurd-not by attacking romanticism...
...particularly impressed Nixon, Burger said two years ago that "governments exist chiefly to foster the rights and interests of their citizens, to protect their homes and property, their persons and their lives. If a government fails in this basic duty, it is not redeemed by providing even the most perfect system for the protection of the rights of defendants in the criminal courts. It is a truism of political philosophy rooted in history that nations and societies often perish from an excess of their own basic principle...
Hoppe's greatest coup has been his discovery of "the perfect solution to absolutely everything" (which is also the title of a 1968 book of his best columns). His cure-all is "total birth control - it will solve all our problems in a single generation." His motto: "Think of the Generation Yet Unborn-Let's Keep Them That Way." The trouble now, argues Hoppe, is that "we all worry about the population explosion -but we don't worry about it at the right time." He doesn't have much faith in birth-control pills...
Ginott also urges parents to realize how easily their children read many levels into the most innocent remarks. Don't tell a cooperative child, "You are always so good-you are an angel," he warns; a child knows he is not always perfect, and is likely to feel anxiety under "an obligation to live up to the impossible...
Harvard's varsity trace team, fresh from a perfect dual meet season, will be partially represented this weekend as the IC4A (Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) outdoor Championships get underway in New York...