Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human clarity is possible remains always questionable. With all his worrying about how to live, about his personal beliefs and his clear conscience, Jean-Louis fails to make an important human perception about the connection between Maud and Francoise, which his scientific outlook has made predictable and obvious. An imperfect system, perhaps? Human error? The dialectic never ends...
...little as twelve months' time. What is more, the Nixon proposals are not being presented to Hanoi and the Viet Cong on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Rather, they are designed to get the Communists talking more seriously and fighting with less enthusiasm. Even an imperfect cease-fire would reduce casualties and costs on both sides...
...Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most capable and most qualified to act as disinterested policemen in a world destined to remain imperfect." Since then, the police metaphor has become a cliché and the feeling less valid than ever...
...bedroom farce into the raw images of guerrilla warfare. What emerges from her pages is a vision in which men constitute a colonial power that exploits and suppresses the aspirations of women by whatever means necessary. . Although Millett modestly claims that her theory of sexual politics is "tentative and imperfect," it moves with the inexorable certainty of a long, lumbering freight train. It is full of strategically selected references to history, sociology, psychology, sexology, biology and literature. The material is written and assembled like a collection of incomplete Ph.D. treatises; the scholarship is carefully but forcefully tailored to prove...
...full citizens, honestly, count their votes, and consistently defeat their candidates. Here is a stalemate. The activists have acquired competing obligations both to the system and the system's victims. A radical himself. Walzer is uncomfortable with the paradox he has presented. His discomfort expresses a denial that "imperfect justice should be endured as long as possible." In a burst of patriotic optimism, he argues that in a democracy the hypocrisy of the majority can be exposed...