Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knapp would not say whether the study had been run at Boston University instead of Harvard because of difficulties in gaining the Administration's sanction. "Suffice it to say," Dr. Knapp said, "that there were perfect working facilities...
...which he fleshed out a man as well as a part in Scuba Duba. The acting gem of the evening is the bit part of an amorous alcoholic pickup played by Marian Mercer. Vocally, she slithers through her lines with the glissando of a soprano trombone. Her timing is perfect. She braces her body as if she could be pushed over with a swizzle stick, and she convicts the show of mere competence by her own distinction...
...symbol he is perfect; as a Jew he is wanting. Betrayed by his English accent, he cannot articulate inversions like "Luck I was always short of" without seeming to pronounce the quotation marks around the words. His most effective support comes from Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov, the court-assigned defender of the fixer. Wearing a fine mask of melancholy disdain, he grows gradually more revulsed by the corruption he witnesses in the palace of justice; his actions and his death predict the fall of the Romanovs as surely as any Leninist edict...
Plot is the most obvious new element in the stories. And McClelland's plots are the equal of any professional--like the tale of Arthur Gask, a prodigal mathematician who, after finding His Woman and losing her, notes of mathematics, "It may not be everything, but it is perfect...
...Perfect for language students, dictation, etc. Take it to class with you--or plug in at the dorm. Records at 1 7/8 ips. Complete with remote control dynamic microphone...