Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alike. The precious meat for the dining halls, hot water for the Houses, the fire in Thayer, the repair to Memorial Hall, and the installing of sanitary facilities for the veterans' housing units-all fall within the daily scope of his activities. In all of these Durant is the perfect Yankee, shrewd and tight-lipped, but eminently fair. From his office in Lehman Hall the building and maintenance services that employ 1500 men and women are controlled with a canny eye towards thrift and an instinctive conservatism that marks an administrative officer of Harvard University...
...wife, happiness and a half-pound of chopped sirloin. Lahr, naturally the comic, works his audience to the last laugh and even in the "sad" scenes manages to turn in a rather convincing performance. His boisterous presence, his remarkable stage direction of the entire cast and his perfect timing, are testimony to his years in the trade. His voice, which carries the richest Brooklyn accent outside of Jersey City, has a sandpaper timbre that was once a familiar echo from the old Palace in New York to the Rialto Burlesque in Chicago...
...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...
...Winds. It looked as if he might. In the second round he pitched dead on the pin with perfect aim, sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing...
...Livingstone credo: "The prior task of education is to inspire, and to give a sense of values and the power of distinguishing . . . what is first-rate from what is not." He restates his counsel of perfection in this month's Atlantic essay (originally a lecture at Toronto's Victoria College). Says he: "Always, soon or late, humanity turns to excellence as naturally as a flower turns to the sun: mankind crucifies Christ and kills Socrates, and they die amid derision and hatred; but in the end they receive the homage of the world. . . . To see the vision...