Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like taking a test, finding out the answers, and then taking the test again the next day." He admits that he has often been tempted to rewrite some of his past plays, but always opts to start a new play. "Every time I believe that this will be the perfect one, but of course it never will. If it is, I might as well stop working," he says...
FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
With temperatures in Cambridge just right for a bikini-scene with Charlie's penguins, this weekend provided the perfect opportunity to ignore Horace Greely's sage advice and instead take a tip from upstart John Belushi--Roadtrip...
...fine scholar, whose books and articles assessed fairly and humanely, without illusions or cynicism, the record of nationalism and imperialism, the legacy of colonial empires, the rise of new nations, the prospects of international organizations. Above all, he was an example of perfect harmony between life and work, character and deeds. He was a gentleman, with a mix of reserve and sensitivity, an utter lack of pretension, a matter-of-fact modesty, a curiosity about all ranges of experience, an attention to other people's thoughts and feelings, an absence of prejudices but not of standards, that made...
...Violent protests by ultraradical Maoists in Washington's Lafayette Park and demonstrations by Taiwanese loyalists in Atlanta went unreported. With rigid discipline, the Chinese press portrayed Teng's host country as America the beautiful, a land apparently without poverty, blessedly free of political or racial strife, a perfect industrial model for the new China. As filler, Chinese TV stations even dipped into footage from U.S. propaganda films showing fruitful U.S. farms and factories...