Word: imperfectibility
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some respects, it was technically imperfect. A State Department official criticized the special report on steel with the comment: "[It is] so full of holes that the old WPB's requirements committee would have rejected it in a few minutes...
...Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi...
Last month, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky finally cracked down in a draconic order calling for all-out denazification to be finished Feb. 20. Attacks against the U.S.'s and Britain's admittedly imperfect denazification were Communism's favorite propaganda device, and Molotov himself is undoubtedly planning to use it at the Moscow conference. But the line can be effective only if Russia's own denazification record is clean. As a consequence, "little" or "forced" Nazis are being thrown out of industry, business, government, schools by the tens of thousands each week...
True partition, with fixed boundaries and complete autonomy, still seems the one best plan, imperfect as it may be. The alternatives are further delay, suffering, and perhaps, bloodshed. Britain would be rid of Palestine, which up to now it has been trying to drop with well glued fingers, at the same time retaining a military base. The Jews would find the area of their future expansion defined and limited, but they would have a haven and a future. And the Arabs, while renouncing claim to a sizable area of the Holy Land, would unquestionably be able to negotiate a suitable...
Here, it is presumed that idealism does and should exist, and it is admired even though it be imperfect or naive. One espouses it the more fiercely when he observes the conditions which allow it to die. Idealists are sometimes wrong, but always right...