Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Walker was satisfyingly oily as the evil Fatt and the other incarnations Odets gives him, and Helen McCloskey was impressive as Joe's inspiring wife, Edna. The only other standout in a very competent cast was John Mann, who in the difficult role of Agate Keller was almost perfect, setting a fine pace at the beginning of his famous closing speech and faltering only in his failure to maintain a crescendo of voice until the final cry of "Strike...
...rise does to his wife (Susan Hay ward). The wife serves him well and happily, so long as he is handling cowboy ballads on 6 a.m. radio dates. But once he comes into that lustrous realm in which appearances and contacts and discreet intrigue count for so much, a Perfect Secretary (Marsha Hunt) takes over more & more of the spadework. She even decorates the crooner's new apartment, and selects gifts for his wife. The wife, robbed of every reason to believe that she is useful, needed or loved, and trying always to brace herself among people who politely...
...near, and through their newspapers the political outs belabor the reform administration. Among innumerable stumblebums, the police dragnet at length yields a young veteran (Arthur Kennedy). There is a horrifying amount of evidence against him; worn down by third-degree treatment, he signs a confession. It is a perfect case, and State's Attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) is being talked up for the governorship. But Harvey has been doing some investigating on his own, and he has become convinced of the young man's innocence. In two sensational court scenes, he proves enough to ensure the prisoner...
...elections would deny the ideal of fullest possible participation. Cliques and bloes which thrive on low vote turnouts could more readily victimize the Councils. The use of the preferential ballot has been beneficial in preventing minority-backed candidates from finishing first. The present election procedure is by no means perfect in this respect, but it does mark departure from the antiquated idea that all political division is an evil...
Harvard College does not pretend to possess a perfect grading system. Essay type examinations cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the number of complaints from students who felt they had been victimized by methods somewhat less than just indicates that unfairness in the grading system has not been reduced to the unavoidable minimum...