Word: imperfectibility
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...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...
...their affairs. But as this new government begins to function, and especially in the field of rule enforcement. I detect a tendency for those who do not like a particular result to attack, often with some indignation, the idea of government. I am sure this machinery is imperfect; being less than a year old, it could hardly be otherwise. But as all but a minority of philosophical anarchists will agree, we must have government. This means that we must have rules and they must be enforced. Let us change the rules if they are wrong and likewise those that enforce...
...Mortals, too, are reincarnations, but their imperfect knowledge places the process of reincarnation beyond their conscious control. Still, it is folly to cultivate one's physical material attributes at the expense of his spiritual integrity, because, Bhaktivendanta maintains, it is not the material trappings of one's existence that transmigrate to another age and another existence, but rather the immortal spirit...
Stunningly introduced, running breathlessly toward the camera in a frame worthy of romantically-inclined Hitchcock, Daria (Daria Halprin) represents for Antonioni semi-dormant awareness of the imperfect world she inhabits. A hippie girl who condescends to establishment employment when she "needs bread," this Antonioni heroine is a creature of fashion: she smokes grass (in contrast with Mark's ascetic "reality trip"), plays music on her radio rather than strike bulletins, and tends to pacify her frustrations and desires by retreating into claborate fantasies. An occasional line suggests that these fantasies are standard-operating-procedure. Mark speaks of the group...