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More persecuted than censured were citizens who fell short of contemporary standards of physical perfection.
Beating up on the pursuit of perfection is silly.
For many are of a countrary opinion, that the English tongue was then in the height of its perfection; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination, like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, but Quintilian himself so much complains, under the person of Secundus, in his famous dialogue de Causis corruptae Eloquentiae.
John Simon describes Chenoweth's performance as "perfection" and says that after the show he wanted "to wrap her in tissue paper and take her home" ( New York ); Ben Brantley describes her performance as "one of those break-out performances that send careers skyward" (the New York Times ). Some critics say several of the actors aren't up to portraying children but that those who succeed make the whole show worthwhile.
Renoir went so far as to write a manifesto in 1884 for a society of "Irregularists"--to include such sworn enemies of mechanical perfection as "painters, decorators, architects, goldsmiths, embroiderers, etc."--but he couldn't muster enough fellow members.
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