Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Diefenbaker, the appointment, made after the portfolio had lain open three months following the death of External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, is an almost perfect choice. The position crowns the career of a loyal retainer with no designs on the party leadership. Diefenbaker will set overall foreign policy, while Green will handle day-to-day problems and parliamentary rough-and-tumble. In bypassing younger Tory potentials, Diefenbaker also avoided tabbing any heir apparent...
WHEN Florentine Sculptor Benvenuto Cellini sought to perfect the rediscovered art of bronze casting in the 16th century, he kept the furnace roaring for days and finally set the roof on fire. Now when a fire breaks out in a sculptor's studio, it is more likely to be caused by an unwatched oxyacetylene torch. The material may still be bronze, but there is an added glitter of stainless steel, phosphor or chrome. The great difference is that Cellini produced in bronze a famous Perseus; today's sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider...
ABLE BAKER PERFECT. No INJURIES OR OTHER DIFFICULTIES...
...Church--they are too subtle for that. Besides, it takes a charitable figure such as Pogo or Lamont Dupont to unite the loyalties of undergraduates. But perhaps this spring has been merely a trouble-free idyll before the clash of forces and decisions--it's been too perfect...
...failure of nerve, Koestler believes, sabotaged these true starts toward knowledge. Faced with a Greek society already in decline, Plato equated any change with decay. For philosophic reasons, he decided that the sphere was the only perfect shape, that the world must be a perfect sphere and that the motion of heavenly bodies must be in perfect circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle...