Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio Actress Chase's first book since her autobiographical Past Imperfect, It is dedicated to the literary limousine trade...
...element in the larger, total power of air forces, navies and armies. Yet, in this warfare, air power was free-free to be used as airmen willed and designed it. First in Spain, then in the early campaigns of World War II, the Germans had made an imperfect start in this warfare. Now, over Sicily and Italy, it was waged from the air with a might, diversity and cohesion which the Germans never approached...
Ilka Chase, an actor on the stage screen and radio, as well as author of a dubious funny book, "Past Imperfect," opened last night at Brattle Hall in a revival of S. N. Behrman's comedy "Biography." Not as good as his other comedies, which include "No Time for Comedy," the play is the story of a successful career woman, a painter, and her decision to write her life story for a national magazine...
...stunt, the Eagle put him on the air (with his head in a photographer's vise so he would not stray from the imperfect microphone) in 1922. A year later he was current-eventing steadily over WEAF. His fan mail included letters from happy housewives: at last they had an easily assimilated news and opinion source with which to confront their cocksure husbands. "Please tell me," they begged, "is he right, or are you?" Kaltenborn is certain that radio began the political education of women...
...business of ordinary life, to fill the routines of plowing and planting and the humdrum tasks of every day with a spirit that will make them conscious efforts to create a better destiny, the ideas must result in programs, and the programs must be fulfilled by living, sweating, striving, imperfect and hopeful people. The ideas and ideals strong enough to rebuild the old world and remake the new cannot be the special province of planners and experts. They must be general enough to cross frontiers and local enough to give meaning to the village carpenter's place...