Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
There is very little that one can really say about Woolley's performance. He knows the part well-obviously, since he is the inventor of it, he plays it beautifully and with perfect shading--he ought to, for he had played it long enough. without him to play Sheridan Whiteside, it would have been complete lunacy for the HDC to attempt a production of this play. No matter how many productions of this perennial favorite you may have seen, when Woolley emits his first line, you know that the right man is in the wheelchair...
...readers will think the report perfect. Some will doubt the validity of certain statements or perhaps of entire chapters; others will think the committee has drifted out of the area of practicality; and still others will question whether all portions of the book represent a majority of the College...
...education is a tricky subject for which the word "perfect" may have little meaning. The major contribution of this committee has been to present to the College community the hard, unavoidable fact that students are not taking part in their own education; the fact that much of the blame for this condition must be attributed to the College's methods--or lack of methods--of education; and to offer several suggested remedies for the situation...
...nice to know that among Harvard's students there are two who are not perfect little Anglophiles, wholly ashamed of their own country. Of course, they may have spoken in defense of it merely because they were assigned to that side of the discussion, but if they were insincere, they managed to hide it. Possibly the day will yet come when Harvard men of their view will find their way into the state department. Today the department has no lack of Harvard men. What it needs is patriots...