Word: imperfectionable
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The books are basically alike, particularly in their insistence that they portray the way things really are. In truth, they are more of a badge cadge. Michael Korda, Simon & Schuster's editor in chief, has said of the new cop books, "The prime element is that they suggest a...
The perfectibility of the individual in the midst of mankind's obvious state of imperfection is an old myth that reaches a dead end in much of our literary heritage. Marlowe, Goethe, Blake and Melville were all aware of the Jonathans and the problems they did not answer.
It was left to the U.N.'s most mellifluous spokesman to lift the tone of the conversation. Israel's Abba Eban suggested that he and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad meet on the stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban...
Fury at human imperfection is the first symptom of the hero's malady. As a teen-age poet, having made the banal discovery that his parents are far from perfect and that the whole world is wicked, he spews out a book of vitriolic verses advertising his family as...
And Terra em Transe is an enormous, complex, and exciting process. It contains not only political elucidation, but also implications for creating a crude and alive revolutionary culture-struggling against the imitations of European perfection as well as the populist paternalism and "simplicity." Rocha strives politically for imperfection, as he...