Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...braced themselves for the arrival of a real ogre. It was Moynihan, after all, who, having just wound up a two-year tour as U.S. Ambassador to India, wrote a controversial article urging the U.S. to quit kowtowing to the Third World. Instead of apologizing for America's "imperfect democracy," he said, the U.S. should take a tough stand toward the new nations, especially their tendency to band together with the Communist countries in anti-Western positions...
...both depend on the play of unfettered minds. At first glance, this seems preposterous; Western art has flourished under monarchies, tyrannies and varied refractions of the Imperial style. But Warren argues that the Greek dramatists and Roman poets created the very concept of free, responsible men that "in an imperfect, stumbling, and ragged way was to become more and more widely available." In the fullness of time, an elitist art helped spawn the rise of the common...
...help being optimistic. Just in terms of time, the 30-year span is an improvement compared to the 1918-1939 period. I think there is also an improvement in that we seem to have mechanisms that work better. The United Nations and other organizations, imperfect as they are, seem to have accomplished a great deal more than the League of Nations. So despite the quantum jump in military capability compared with the previous 20-year period, we have stretched the period of peace, and it is my judgment that the prospects are even better for the next decade and beyond...
...cities Marco Polo describes are only aspects of a single, perfect city that cannot be approached directly, but only by piecing together the fragments of imperfect cities...
...colonies had grown up under constitutions of government so different, there was so great a variety of religions, they were composed of so many different nations, their customs, manners and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been so rare, and their knowledge of each other so imperfect, that to unite them ... was certainly a very difficult enterprise...