Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Perfection and Isolation. "Perfectionism no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation, but against the alleged imperfections of the peace. . . . We gave up the hope of gradually achieving a better peace because we had not the courage to fulfill our responsibilities in an admittedly imperfect world. We must not let that happen again. . . . We can fulfill our responsibility for maintaining the security of our own country only...
...Plan is Imperfect...