Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centuries and has never achieved it. That is no reason why they should not continue to preach the message and to try to change mankind. That is their vocation. But peace has never been achieved, even for a while, by moral inspiration alone. It has always required the highly imperfect, compromise-ridden and impure actions of political leaders. The dilemma potentially posed by the bishops' strivings is that reaching for the best could undermine the good, and that striving for the ideal might undermine the practical. -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Jim Castelli/Washington, J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Bruce...
...measuring success. Quantity is no-clear indicator: while one professor churns out a stream of papers, another may be hidden in a laboratory quietly curing cancer. As for quality, that is something only an academic's colleagues can judge, not his administrative superiors. But even peer judgments are imperfect in academia, suspect as they usually are to internecine methodological disputes...
...operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself is threatened. These are the trappings of a Graham Greene moral thriller, but Herbert moves them into the arena of science fiction with some frightening speculations on medical warfare and some chilling ideas about the future imperfect, a hazardous place even without the threat of a nuclear holocaust...
There, things go awry by going modern. Rooney is the biographer of basements, the cataloguer of dresser drawers, and memorializer of saved string. His loyalty extends in many directions: to his overstuffed, imperfect house ("I like it about fifty percent more than I did when the bank owned part of it"); to his clothes (many of his 19 socks do not match) and even to memory loss ("My favorite color is dark green, but I forget why"). Rooney has a misplaced fealty to conglomerated America as well. "If the bank doesn't know me by name," he writes...
...though, Boston theatergoers will have to resign themselves to a somewhat imperfect theatrical experience, a small price to play for seeing the show here at all. Several minor performances, especially Jill Geddes' as Peron's former mistress, rival those of the leads. Above all else, Webber's consistently haunting and melodic score makes an Evita ticket a worthy investment...