Word: imperfectible
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Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
...Peiping. He talked earnestly with top U.S. officers in China, reportedly advised Washington to withdraw U.S. marines gradually (in about three months). But some Americans in China would risk a stronger U.S. policy and go all-out to insure China's peace by supporting Chiang's Government, imperfect...
...Imperfect Crime. In Seattle, three housebreakers fell to doodling on a type writer, left their names and addresses...
...Harmony has gradually become as rationally imperfect as other places - perhaps a little more so. The local theater owner still complains of the week he showed Lost Horizon. "The farmers saw no sense in the damned thing, Shangri-La, snow one minute and warm sunlight with green leaves the next. Such things simply could not happen, they say - and would rather see something that is at least pos sible, like Shirley Temple...
This bow to an imperfect world came only after intense and elevated debate between those who preferred a faulty beginning to none at all, and those who felt that the Protestant churches of the U.S. would fail in their duty if they compromised with the crude expediency of power politics. Leading the debate were two distinguished antagonists: John Foster Dulles and Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of the Christian Century, who rejected the label of "perfectionism" but perfectly stated the perfectionist case...