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Juliet of the Spirits (1965) is a fantasy by Fellini that doesn't look like a Fellini film. Fellini made this film about a crumbling marriage because, he said, marriage "has been made into a myth, told in an inexact and treacherous manner...
...system is perfect. It would be unreasonable and inexact to pretend that the present method of appointment excludes all extraneous considerations, such as the personal preferences and political sympathies stressed in the article. Just as the editors of The Crimson, in choosing their successors each year, must do their best to confine the issues to those of merit and yet sometimes--some of them, surely--allow themselves to be influenced by friendship and political congeniality, so faculty members are not perfect machines of judgement and no doubt similarly swayed. We are all supposed to be above such considerations...
...been challenged on several grounds. Gregory Ingram, a leading critic, maintains that Forrester never explicitly defines criteria for evaluating programs. John F. Kain, professor of Government at Harvard, believes that Forrester overstates the role of housing availability in attracting immigrants. Others have charged that the model is structurally inexact because it does not include the suburbs...
...recent years, students of the U.S. Supreme Court would leaf through new decisions in hopes of finding an opinion written by Hugo Black or John Harlan. Their extraordinary capacity to clarify and make vivid the issues in a case made their judgments preferred reading to serious scholars of the inexact science that is law. Because they often disagreed, there inevitably were cherished occasions when the two met head to head, as the writers of the major contending opinions. Black-more frequently in the majority-would crisply muster the facts and reasoning that led to the court's ruling...
When competing First Amendment freedoms are at stake, blanker statements are usually inexact. As often as not, the decision of a court hinges on a careful examination of facts and these vary from case to case. The dilemma of satisfying equally legitimate yet potentially conflicting rights accounts for the care with which the courts have discussed these issues and the diversity of opinion on them...