Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture- Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Honest, credulous Henry Steel Olcott, part-time journalist, a Civil War colonel who had recently been admitted to the New York bar, was the perfect front man. A year later, he had deserted his wife and three sons to devote his time to serving the dynamic Blavatsky...
Last week some of the A-plus results came out in book form (Renoir Drawings, Bittner; $15). Renoir's freshman efforts were a touch too perfect-for a while he tried to imitate the exactitude of Ingres -but by his sophomore year the middle-aged master's drawings were true-to-life and also true to the principles which had been formulated by Poet Charles Baudelaire : "A good drawing is not a hard, cruel, motionless line enclosing a form like a straitjacket. Drawing should be like nature, living and restless. . . . Nature shows us an endless series of-curved...
...what the professor wants on an exam," Miss Tag-von Stein said. "The classes are so impersonal and the section meetings so inadequate that we never get to know anything more about the teacher than what's in his lecture." More discussion groups, smaller classes, would be the perfect solution, all the girls agreed. "I wouldn't trust an answer from a section man," said Cynthia Brott, who finds school work not very easy even after a year "without a day off" in an Army hospital. "Especially in a field like social relations, I want to get the professor...
...concept is cogent if not staggeringly original, and on-the-spot scenes in Berlin, Rome, and Madrid add force to the picture. Ann Richards contributes one of the most perfect speaking voices ever recorded, Sylvia Sidney an excellent performance, and Robert Young a debonair priggishness. He is the very model of a blind American ambassador...
...zealous financial pruning stopped, however, when he cast a ballot for the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the event of a Republican victory to Charles Eaton whose action in the field of foreign affairs extends to support of a measure authorizing the use of UNRRA funds as a political weapon...