Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Baha'is see the major steps in their future in three great canvasses. The first is a period of persecution. The second, called the time of the "Lesser Peace," finds the world, exhausted with disaster, coming together in a loose, imperfect way while increasingly looking to Baha'is for guidance. The third, called the time of the "Most Great Peace," realizes the Baha'i "Theomony." Some believers enthusiastically look forward to all three periods. Last June, the Baha'i religion was banned in Iraq. Tomorrow, the world. The day after tomorrow, the Kingdom...
...human clarity is possible remains always questionable. With all his worrying about how to live, about his personal beliefs and his clear conscience, Jean-Louis fails to make an important human perception about the connection between Maud and Francoise, which his scientific outlook has made predictable and obvious. An imperfect system, perhaps? Human error? The dialectic never ends...
...little as twelve months' time. What is more, the Nixon proposals are not being presented to Hanoi and the Viet Cong on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Rather, they are designed to get the Communists talking more seriously and fighting with less enthusiasm. Even an imperfect cease-fire would reduce casualties and costs on both sides...
...Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most capable and most qualified to act as disinterested policemen in a world destined to remain imperfect." Since then, the police metaphor has become a cliché and the feeling less valid than ever...
...bedroom farce into the raw images of guerrilla warfare. What emerges from her pages is a vision in which men constitute a colonial power that exploits and suppresses the aspirations of women by whatever means necessary. . Although Millett modestly claims that her theory of sexual politics is "tentative and imperfect," it moves with the inexorable certainty of a long, lumbering freight train. It is full of strategically selected references to history, sociology, psychology, sexology, biology and literature. The material is written and assembled like a collection of incomplete Ph.D. treatises; the scholarship is carefully but forcefully tailored to prove...