Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, believe that this disposes of the troubling problem of the academy's political neutrality. Conor Cruise O'Brien points out somewhere that in the developing world here are "their neutrals" and "our neutrals." The analogy is not perfect, but for most American universities, their "neutrality" or their "political" character has always been tipped to the established order. It is feigned innocence to pretend that any other situation could adhere. As Harvard has eschewed the worst features of this imbalance, it is rightly a matter of some pride. Yet a can-did confrontation with its own normative principles cannot help...
Nichol's only misdirection--and it was slight--involved George C. Scott (Ben). Scott displayed an almost chivalrous attitude toward his sister. Though he wouldn't notice a simpering girl, the smile of a dragon eager to rip his guts out fascinated him. That was perfect. So was the way he dipped cigars in his wine glass and wound a noisy watch during the musical interlude. But Scott abandoned his role occasionally to play standup comedian. He would execute a clever turn but spoil it by acting as if he thought it was pretty clever...
...little town in New Jersey. With traditional libidinousness, Harvard sang Morely's Say, dear, will you not have me, The Old Maid's Song (from Pulaski County, Ky.) and Randall Thompson's Tarantella. The latter featured both a sensitive rendering of the accompaniment by Philip Kelsey and the perfect concordance of a police siren with a third-inversion F-seven chord, giving Cambridge the world's only police department with perfect pitch...
...Observer ran some sentimental recollections of Eleanor's-just the thing to make every girl wish she had a spy for a husband. "If your work demands the most tireless watchfulness, you tend to compensate by the intensity of your sex-based relationships," wrote Eleanor. "Our marriage was perfect in every way." In a separate article entitled, "The Spy We Took In from the Cold," the Observer explained why it had hired Philby after he had been dismissed from intelligence: he had been warmly recommended by the Foreign Office...
Although Van Gogh labored diligently to perfect his draftsmanship, he had nothing but contempt for it as an end in itself. "Art," he wrote a friend, "is something not created by hands, but something that wells up from a deeper source out of our soul, and in the cleverness and technical knowledge with regard to art, I find something that reminds me of what in religion one would call self-righteousness." As a Dutch preacher's son preparing for the Protestant ministry, he taught himself to draw the dour peasants and bleak countryside almost as a form of spiritual...