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Perfection and Isolation. "Perfectionism no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation, but against the alleged imperfections of the peace. . . . We gave up the hope of gradually achieving a better peace because we had not the courage to fulfill our responsibilities in an admittedly imperfect world. We must not let that happen again. . . . We can fulfill our responsibility for maintaining the security of our own country only...
...Plan is Imperfect...
...Imperfect Perfection. Piano tuning is difficult mainly because the piano is an imperfect musical instrument. It does not possess enough keys to play all the notes in music. (One key, for example, must do for both F sharp and G flat.) The compromise by which piano strings are tuned to represent musical tones that are close in pitch, but not identical, involves a mathematical theory of Einsteinian complexity.* Practically, the problem is to put the piano systematically and artistically out of tune, by equalizing the tonal distances between the black & white keys. In getting each note of the piano just...
Short, slender, tongue-cheeked Columnist Fisher quickly skirts the dangers to a free press inherent in mass misinformation and in mass-distributed opinion slanted to particular ends. He passes on to a detailed study of his voluble subjects-"faulty and imperfect souls, no matter what their clients believe." Some of the Fisher findings...
...Rhymes with idle. Literally "hair-nest," so called because hairs grow inside the cyst. A pi lonidal cyst is supposed to result from imperfect fusion of the two halves of a body in fetal life...