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Abrasive confrontation-demonstrations are imperfect responses and their inadequacies both in terms of cost and achievements trouble all of us--but they, unlike the Beatles' snide noninvolvement, are a response...
...Imperfect Society...
...that speech, he said that young people in the United States were restless, seeking a place in an imperfect society. He said that their energies and already-proved abilities ought to be directed to the formidable questions of the day which he felt no better equipped to answer than they were...
Even in the Roman Catholic Church, which has traditionally upheld the immutability of dogma, there is widespread recognition by theologians that all formulas of faith are man's frail and imperfect vessels for carrying God's truth, and are forever in need of reformulation. In the light of Christianity's need to respond to the human needs of the earth, many of these ancient formulas hardly seem worth rethinking. "The central axis of religious concern," notes Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "has shifted from matters of ultimate 'salvation,' and of heaven...
...Imperfect Nude. Like other publications of more pretension, Eye felt called upon to run at least one put-on, a bit of misogynic whimsy by Freelancer Pete Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...