Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program had attracted everyone: the Prelude to Parsifal and the Good Friday Music, then the great Ninth Symphony. It was Toscanini's idea of "the perfect program." Wagner, in his last, leisurely opera worked with such themes as idealistic love, faith through suffering, purification, redemption. He varied them, interchanged them so masterfully, so melodiously that a certain haloed authenticity has become attached to his muddled allegory of the Grail-keepers...
Back to the farm go the happy Frakes. Melissa will settle down to good home life again. Abel will see that Blue Boy propagates more perfect pigs. Margy and Wayne will return to Harry and Eleanor, able now to love without being abashed by love's physiology...
...where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write of him in uppercase...
...gets from her is hark-from-the-tomb again, for telling on his wife. She assures poor Oswald that some men are born to be cuckolds and that he is eminently one of them. Other stories are of "A Gentleman of England," who, if he was not perfect, "it was not for lack of thinking so"; of Jeremy Gibber, who, by mixing clam-like silences with psychological moments rose to be a leader of ecclesiastical thought; and "Last Straws," a powerful story of post-War aches &; pains...
...that Buster is not clicking in perfect form, for he plainly strains, himself to protect Polly Moran from falling in love with one of those fickle gigolos. After smashing of a great deal of crockery over sundry heads, which always is amusing to see, even though it may be a sign of a sadistic nature, love is finally frustrated, and the audience awaits the Micky Mouse...