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...task yet lies before the United Nations that time and tireless effort cannot accomplish. Time, however, is grudgingly granted by a people curiously expectant of modern miracles. The impatient perfectionist, continually frustrated by examples of power politics, cannot long avoid cynicism. He counts for naught the progress made when the family of nations agreed to bring their haggling within the confines of the council chamber. Exhorting the deadliness of the atomic bomb, he summons fear to promote his crusade for "real" world government...
Chicago's show, "Drawings Old and New," would have been even more blasphemous to the French perfectionist. On exhibition were a Van Gogh landscape made of a briar patch of angry, tangled pen strokes; a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor...
...world's best golfer, the Los Angeles Open tourney was always a pesky stumbling block. Byron Nelson had never won it, actually finished out of the money (worse than 16th) five years ago. In his jinx tourney last week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
...Perfectionist. In Honolulu, a thief who stole a pair of shoes from the Bata Shoe Store returned next day to exchange them for a pair the right size...
...Protestant churches of the U.S. would fail in their duty if they compromised with the crude expediency of power politics. Leading the debate were two distinguished antagonists: John Foster Dulles and Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of the Christian Century, who rejected the label of "perfectionism" but perfectly stated the perfectionist case...