Word: imperfectibility
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...father off on the job? They cannot, as Virginia Woolf observed, "run about the streets." The options are limited, and so far imperfect. These days, what Woolf called "that deepseated [male role] desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior" may have moderated into an awareness that a different equation is wanted. Finding and holding the balance, however, requires some acrobatic skill. It also demands flexibility and a good deal of resilience...
Using standardized tests as an equalizer--albeit an imperfect one--has spurred discussion of an even broader issue: whether any standardized test. SAT or Achievement, actually can illuminate a student's basic abilities. Many have charged that high scorers on any such test are likely to be well-off and to have attended better high schools. Whitla, however, dismisses the notion that there exist "bright and noble savages"--students who could succeed here academically in spite of preparation so poor that they could not do well on Achievements...
...sure, this opinion poll, like any other, is an imperfect reflection of human attitudes. Gill estimates that an error of 4% to 5% is normal in a survey of this size. But as a bit of pioneering research into the thinking of a people who so rarely have a chance to speak for themselves, the PORI poll offers some useful and unsettling insights. -By William E. Smith. Reported by David Aikman/Jerusalem
...nights ago and it was filled with eleven-year-olds. Why? Who knows?" Thompson, who is only 32 himself, does offer and explanation for the story's appeal, and his answer is doubtless the right one. "There is tremendous love in the film. It is about imperfect people loving each other. The Henry Fonda character is a real bastard when you get down to it, but Hepburn puts up with him anyway. Everyone wants someone like that-to put up with him until he dies...
...piece throughout"-that, certainly, was true of De Stijl design. Its aesthetic was seamless, from painting to furniture to architecture, where it made few concessions to the flabby and imperfect human body. Gerrit Rietveld's penitential chairs, rigidly geometric and painted in their bright, winking primaries, go far beyond the ordinary level of Bauhaus discomfort as practiced in the '20s. Yet one cannot imagine Rietveld's masterpiece, the tiny Schroder house in Utrecht, being furnished with anything else. Such interiors were not open to redecoration: the pattern is absolute, the space a sermon. One would need...