Word: perfectness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is indeed a happy thought. Let it be said that such a statement, however nobly conceived, is merely a reflection of ignorance; no one can get very far in "one or two afternoons." He must work for months, years, to perfect the difficult techniques involved in tennis and squash. The report might as well have said that one or tow lessons with a good piano teacher will make musicians...
...former world . . . we could entirely disregard the question of aggression and treat both sides with perfect impartiality without trying to make any inquiry into the rights and wrongs. . . . But today the fact of systematized aggression stares us in the face and we know only too well who the aggressors are. . . . We only have to read about some of the occurrences to the South of us to realize that even we are within the zone of their orbit...
...lecture Yale students on Shakespeare. [An optimist, he finds Schopenhauer "a charming companion."] Friend of Galsworthy, Conrad, Henry James, Shaw, Santayana, Henry Ford, he is a "hero-worshipper" who once told Joseph Conrad he loved him; a critic who called the swing of Eddie Guest's poetry "perfect," Joyce, Dreiser and such moderns "rubbish...
...Council performed creditably in making definite out of vague criteria. But this is only rationalizing a weak report, for when this is done, there is little accomplished. Since the House admission problem is an insoluble one, what is needed more than set criteria is a more perfect way of applying these. It finally rests with the Masters to progress in this direction, although they must be encouraged and guided on the road...
...Manhattan, Frieda Mierse Wynn, 27, filed suit for separation from Funnyman Ed ("The Perfect Fool") Wynn, 52, charged him with being a "constant nag." Extracts from his 140-page answer: "First I bought her a dictionary. ... I trained her along the lines of the social graces.. . . The bliss I hoped for lasted only five days...