Word: imperfectionable
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Theresa leaves her Bronx home to attend City College, where she becomes entangled with a sadistic, egotistical, boorish college professor and willingly loses her virginity. The professor is the only man in Looking for Mr. Goodbar that Rossner is able to portray convincingly. No longer young, he is interested in...
But Decter never deals with the possibility that her description of the liberal parent (with whom she has so clearly allied herself) may be inaccurate. She claims that the youth of the 60s are unable to define themselves except in terms of their parents, and because of this assumption must...
It is very human to want to repress the ugly and the painful. But it is also very dangerous. Repression is psychological anesthesia, and like real anesthesia it becomes dangerous when the drugged patient exerts himself--feeling no pain, seeing no evidence of death, he is unaware of and unprepared...
More broadly, Griffith says that the function of the newsman should not be to purvey final answers and finished philosophy: "He is neither defender of any faith nor prophet of new orders, nothing so grand as that. His role in society is more like a dredging engineer, whose job it...
The law is supposed to be the repository of a society's ethics and morals. It is of course also slavishly technical, extravagantly complex and simultaneously too precise and not precise enough. But its very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth...