Word: imperfectibility
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...ironic language and vibrant, Dickensian characters make Pantagleize a powerful play no matter which side of the barricades you stand on. Gordon Ferguson's Chaplinesque portrayal of Pantagleize, probably de Ghelderode's finest creation, contributes a giant share to making Dunster House's production a rousing and boisterous, though imperfect, success...
...freedom rides of the early 1960's were moving expressions of opposition to segregation laws. In addition, marches such as the 1963 Civil Rights March and the 1968 Poor People's March, helped the passage of more just laws. Democracy is infinitely perfectable--and infinitely imperfect, it does not thrive when its citizens are passive about injustice...
...vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons and law courts and worse ... No, exile would be better. Yet he loathed the thought of living anywhere but America--he was too American by now: he did not wish to walk down foreign streets and think with imperfect nostalgia of dirty grease on groovy hamburgers, not when he didn't even eat them here...
...course, you'll find discrimination everywhere in our society. I for one certainly don't think it will be eradicated in our lifetime. Like it or not, we do live in an imperfect world...
...have, for a vast majority of the tens of thousands of claimants have been wronged beyond any state's power to recompense them. Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...