Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respected professor and clinician, Guttmacher preached that birth control information and devices must be made available to everyone. In 1962 he became president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and began jetting the globe to spread his message. He urged the use of I.U.D.s in underdeveloped countries, arguing that imperfect contraception was better than none...
...world is dangerously imperfect. There are no doctors, and so Comte dies of routine appendicitis. He becomes an object of mythic veneration, a Mao Tse-tung of the new age. In a post script - one has seen it coming a hun dred pages away - a successor notes that his fellow survivors have voted "that practical research into the manufacture of .36 rifle bullets should be instituted immediately and given top priority." And so on. But post-apocalypse society is fun while it lasts...
...Larkey and Susan Grody struggled with a part which demanded entrances with very high notes. The critical attack on the first note is harder on the French horn than almost any other instrument, especially on high notes. Baker had the two stand to accept applause for their determined, if imperfect efforts...
ROBERT David MacDonald's production of Lady Windermere's Fan for the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater is a finely polished presentation of Wilde's often bitter satirical commentary on Victorian mores. Although imperfect, MacDonald's careful staging and special efforts to leave Wilde's acid humor message intact make a highly entertaining performance that might even have amused Lady Windermere's eccentric author...
Despite the imperfect state in which the play has come to us, Macbeth surmounts all obstacles and has the power to grip you like no other. I don't mean just its ability to engage the mind; the play has an almost corporeal existence, and can seize you by the throat and wring...