Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claiming that records made by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under his direction were imperfect, goateed British Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham sued Columbia Recording Corp. for libel, estimating damage to his reputation...
...years when the men who gave our nation its character and its direction were men who were keenly aware that they were sons of God. . . . Our political institutions and our foreign policies were then moulded by that fact. To be sure, what our nation did was, at best, imperfect and was diluted by much hypocrisy and materialism. But the churches had driven basic Christian principles into the consciousness of a sufficient number of persons so that they could and did lift our national action onto a somewhat moral plane. That is what I desire to see happen again...
...Christian era. . . . The roots of freedom are in the Sermon on the Mount and in the Epistles of St. Paul. . . . Freedom is responsible choice. . . ." It is never a release and always a responsibility. Alongside this axiom of freedom he sets another: Freedom implies an admission that man is imperfect. Perfect men who know all the answers would have the right and duty to rule absolutely. The men who believe they know all the answers in this age are the "rational liberals." Their sense of their absolute right to put these answers into effect at all cost is the moral basis...
Author Heym's main theme is that even an imperfect, crushed human being can outwear a tyrant if he has the will to sacrifice, to die. As a craftsman Stefan Heym is not always equal to his exalted theme...
Like his heroes, Nehru is an intellectual far ahead of the mass of his people, and not quite like them. For though the emphasis in Glimpses of World History is Asiatic, Old Harrovian Nehru is himself an imperfect amalgam of East and West...