Word: perfective
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...title of the opera refers to the transcendent and reconciliatory power of the human voice, whether scared or profane. However, in the ears of critics at the French dailies, the experiment has proved to be less than pitch-perfect. Le Figaro, for example, declared Welcome to the Voice "rock and opera's wedding gone wrong," slipping into "platitudes." Meanwhile, the daily Liberation, criticized the libretto's "naivete...
...wife Linda are the perfect buyers,” he says. “ [Jeff] is not only a book lover—but a businessman...
...said Booker, who has served as Newark’s mayor since 2006. Booker said that today’s youth should acknowledge the accomplishments of the great leaders he learned about in his childhood and work to move the country closer to the “perfect ideals” it was founded upon. In contrast to Booker, Negretti took to the stage wearing a grin that remained on her face throughout her speech. She told the story of Maria Carrasco, a Lynn, Mass. school committee member who was inspired to enter public service after attending...
...need to get nostalgic, though—Harvard’s Game-centric school-spirit gatherings have never been perfect, rain or shine. The rally in 1962, held on Widener steps, suffered from the same stifling police environment that inhibits its latter-day cousins; it was closed out with two arrests, one of which was for “standing on a ladder”. The 1980 rally seems like it might have been an oasis of fun bisecting two almost-twenty-year dry spells. At it, the then-associate dean of freshmen worried that “the damn...
...think our defense has done an incredible job this year of coming up with big plays in critical situations and being resilient, being able to perform under pressure, that’s kind of been our m.o. this entire season...We haven’t always been perfect, but we’ve been able to come up the big play when we’ve needed it,” Schultz said.It is the Crimson’s second championship in as many seasons and third in the last five. Brown holds the other piece of the title after...