Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what had gone wrong, they discovered that those body counts meant people were dying, the game was bloody, there was much misery and no glory. U.S. intervention in Viet Nam had once seemed necessary and reasonable, the sort of thing a just power must some times do in an imperfect world. But now they began to wonder whether the price, for anyone or any side, was worth it. Was the U.S. really accomplishing anything? Above all, after Tet in 1968 and America's growing sense of failure, they began to discuss a mushy and unfamiliar concept among war planners: morality...
...they were, until the testimony of the witness who will probably never see this imperfect but indelible tribute. Like Tolstoy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is, despite the anguished diary, wholly Russian, a man who "cannot contemplate living anywhere but in my native land." Still, Solzhenitsyn has earned a scathing tribute from one pro-Soviet apologist and enemy: "He has already defected with his soul...
...father, he lacked the confidence and grace that would have eliminated the need for the yes-men who formed what was always more his court than his kingdom. Finally and most damagingly of all, his grasp of the world beyond the orb of the Southern black middle class was imperfect to the point of terminal misconstruction. Thus as Williams quotes Joanne Grant, a black reporter who covered King closely, "It was very important that he should make the decisions, and yet he really couldn...
Audiences interested only in nostalgia should not see Follies now. Let them wait until it is revived in, say, the mid-1980s. Then this imperfect but glittering production will be an item of genuine nostalgia?the show that turned the American musical theater around and pointed it forward...
...always both difficult and important, whether its impetus comes from the admonitions of the Bible, Freud, or Fritz Perls. Perhaps for those of us who attempt by our own actions to change the perception and reactions of others, it is even more so. But despite the disadvantages of imperfect resistance tactics and despite the confusion I suspect many of us feel within ourselves, we must continue to protest against the outrageous. The war and the injustice continue. And while they do, only the most dexterous among us can successfully wash his own hands and afford the luxury of turning inward...