Word: imperfectionable
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Bunny is the one who makes everything in the Mellon domestic world seem so effortlessly perfect. "The job that Paul has given me is to set the stage for the life he moves in," she says. But for fear that perfection would itself be an imperfection, Bunny carries with her...
By far the largest single consumer of rhesus monkeys in the U.S., as foreseen in the 1955 treaty, is the polio-vaccine testing program. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y., now the sole U.S. manufacturer of the vaccine, grows the Sabin attenuated virus strains in cultures of African green monkey...
Beyond that, cooking for Dr. Simon is the kind of learning experience that has occupied his professional life: "If your first recipe fails, you say, 'Dammit, I have to try it again.' It's like medical skills: Why did you miss that diagnosis? In the kitchen, as in the hospital...
Between the beginning and the end of this student-choreographed piece, Claire Mallardi would say, "falls the shadow" of imperfection that Eliot spoke of in his poem, The Hollow Men." Mallardi, who is director of the University's dance program, has spent the last two years as artistic advisor of...
Bertrand Russell insisted on living in the best of all possible worlds and responded to imperfection as if it were a personal insult to his intelligence. That stubbornness made him the pain in the neck par excellence of modern times. Or perhaps, as Tait speculates, it made him a sort...