Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have More Sugar? should be read for an answer, My First Parachute Jump as a shared experience. Light reading matter should be read breezily, serious or technical stuff more intensively. If the reader knows what to look for and how to pace himself, he will save time. Practice makes perfect, says Dr. Center; after a while, reading may even get to be fun. Backward readers may even discover that great books are not merely printed paper but the communications of eternal minds. Readers who once discover that fact will soon leave behind the clinical machines...
Donna Holabird shared her husband's triumph. She brought to the role of Joan an overpowering sincerity which combined with her technique, perfect appearance, and natural charm to bring her probably as close as anyone has ever come to Shaw's concept of the untutored but common-sense country girl thrust by her God into history. The play was more than a personal achievement, however, for the VTW had assembled a supporting cast with an unusual number of almost inspired actors. Under the expert direction of Jerry Kilty and Georgina Johnston, the difficulties of the play were overcome...
...performed with something more than even extraordinary skill. Charles Sedgwick as the Archbishop of Reins and Thayer David as the Inquisitor went beyond the realms of skill in the two roles which more than any other express the religious-philosophical outlook of Shaw in the play. Mendy Weisgal was perfect as the pathetic Dauphin, from his neglected yellow robes to the fifteenth century hair style he had summoned for the occasion. H. M. Temple set the pace for the rest of the cast with a superbly stylish performance as de Baudricourt in the opening scene, and William A. West...
...short, is bound to passivity by the perfection of what He has created. Further progress is impossible. Says Toynbee: ". . . The impulse or motive which makes a perfect Yin-state pass over into a new Yang-activity comes from an intrusion of the Devil into the universe...
...people grant it-being afraid for him and not for themselves . . . and once he has this bodyguard, this champion of the people clears out his rivals and stands up-a perfect and finished tyrant-no longer the representative of the people but their absolute master...