Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposition, the pact has the backing of a very wide spectrum of informed opinion, including conservatives like Bill Buckley and John Wayne. Four successive Presidents-Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and now Jimmy Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults may be found with an imperfect document in a not so perfect world, but its basic realism has not been questioned by those with some familiarity with the issue. Why, then, the rancorous debate? Says former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who testified on behalf of the pact: "A mistake was made in the beginning...
...World War I Europe, no financier intended to go broke building glass towers and ideal suburbs that nobody wanted to live in. And quite right too: for little in the history of architecture since the pharaohs quite equals the lofty disregard of human needs-the ordinary instinctive behavior of imperfect people wanting comfort-implicit in so many constructivist/Bauhaus designs...
...musician, whose natural medium is the most eloquent of languages, recourse to the more imperfect vocabulary of words must be a little like walking on stilts. And as for the dubious business of autobiography, it is a rare performer who can claim the effort of self-expression at the typewriter one-half as successful or as justified as the vibrant communication from stage and recording studio...
Because Allan Bakke's suit provides an imperfect test case, the Court should instruct the U.C. Davis Medical School merely to reconsider Bakke's application for admission. The justices should tread confidently but lightly, however, and produce a unified majority opinion that supports affirmative action and compensatory programs for the disadvantaged, but still rules unconstitutional the use of strict quotas and ethnic background as factors in admissions decisions...
Trustman says he has trouble understanding how today's coeducation can work. "The prior system was probably repressive and imperfect but I wonder what I would have been doing and thinking about if half my dorm were girls. I wouldn't have gotten any work done!" he muses. When he and his wife visited a student in the Quad last year, he found Cabot Hall "excruciating." He was amazed to greet an undergraduate in her slip and watch her stroll into a bathroom occupied by several men. "It was like seeing a woman walk into a men's room...