Word: imperfectible
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Using her powers. Ten Dorp (Jodie Barrett) predicts the play's murders, but her warnings are ignored because she has a slightly imperfect gift. (She predicts the arrival of Anderson's typewriter as a small Black man named Smith Corolla.) Barrett's broad campish delivery relieves the tension of some of the murders. Delivering the play's best exit line, she exclaims. "Ach, my daughter, she is pregnant, after all those years of trying she has finally made me a grandmother. I must go tell...
Reich: There is not a perfect match between private sector decision making, what's good for the shareholders, and what is good for the country. If you acknowledge that there is an imperfect match, then you're back at the first questions we raised: can you fix it, and should you try, and what are the negative side effects of trying...
...irreverence is still there, though the flipness and the elaborate convolutions of the early "TIME style" are long gone. As for American and Western values, TIME very consciously maintains its faith in them. We believe in freedom, including freedom of conscience and enterprise; in democracy, however imperfect; in a strong and beneficial American role in the world, however difficult...
DIED. Joan Robinson, 79, imperious, questing professor of economics at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1971; in Cambridge, England. In 1933, she published the iconoclastic Economics of Imperfect Competition and became the only woman in the small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope...
...Most were intellectuals who would have been restless in any culture. It is doubtful, for example, if Brecht ("Wherever I go, they ask me, Spell your name") would have been happy anywhere on earth. Others, like Mann, never really understood the nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein or Thomas and Klaus Mann were back and could observe the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut or the Moral Majority...