Word: defective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defect in U.N. negotiating technique had become quite plain. This was a tendency to make some demands for bargaining purposes, or to soothe the feelings of South Korea's intransigent Syngman Rhee, without making a sufficiently clear distinction between these demands and those basic questions of principle on which the U.N. was determined not to surrender...
Professor Walsh's little book, Campus Gods on Trial, is a compact champion of Christianity against the secularism of the modern college. Unfortunately, like a competent lawyer with a speech defect, Walsh gives poor expression to a persuasive case. Even the ideas of Pascal sound pretty shallow in the childish lisp which the author conceives as "the language of the student." Analyzing Existence as "a three layer cake," the book abounds in silly metaphors, terming Christ "the penicillin of Salvation" and the Incarnation "God's rescue operation." His attempts at jazzy writing are equally dismal, whether describing a "Warm Fire...
Tonight We Sing, though, is as much a triumph for the production staff as for the individual stars. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, it escapes what might have been a serious defect--a disjointed grouping of extravagant scenes. The technicolor photography perfectly suits the full, rich colors of the opera and ballet excerpts. But the greatest achievement was musical director Alfred Newman's, who effectively transported the opera scores to a film medium...
Books to Remedy Defect...
...curriculum based on the classics will seek to remedy that defect. "The emphasis," says Bruce M. Bigelow, Brown's vice-president, "will be on analyzing, not on memorizing...