Word: imperfectly
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DIED. Joan Robinson, 79, imperious, questing professor of economics at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1971; in Cambridge, England. In 1933, she published the iconoclastic Economics of Imperfect Competition and became the only woman in the small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope...
...Most were intellectuals who would have been restless in any culture. It is doubtful, for example, if Brecht ("Wherever I go, they ask me, Spell your name") would have been happy anywhere on earth. Others, like Mann, never really understood the nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein or Thomas and Klaus Mann were back and could observe the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut or the Moral Majority...
...governing is an imperfect art form at best, then Government bureaucrats are in a way consummate artists. Imperfection, of course, is a matter of degree. But last week, at three federal agencies, some choice examples of Imperfection's art were on display...
Such heresy is the trademark of the genial Ornstein. He listens patiently to the endless yammering of the special interests and the experts, then gently suggests that they step back and look at the forest instead of their own imperfect tree. "James Madison [the Federalist) would be pleased if he were here," declares Ornstein. "The best features of the checks and balances are in play. We are not being dominated by sets of insidious special interests. We are arriving at a set of centrist and sensible policies...
...spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...