Word: defectiveness
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...chief defect of the concert was the atrocious choice of music. (I know some habitual concertgoers who decided to skip this one when they saw the program.) Three of the four selections were late nineteenth century romantic, and the fourth--though written later--was largely in that style. Now it is good to have some sensationalism from the Romantic period, but all of the world's music was not written after 1850. At Christmas time, when there is so much really great and profound music from the baroque period that is especially appropriate, it is criminal that the whole program...
...playing area resembles a giant record turntable, and since the actors burst into song every few minutes, it sometimes seems as if an invisible disk jockey were directing the play. The best tune, The Impossible Dream, could be transferred intact to Skyscraper, which suggests the show's basic defect. It ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away...
...Ontario Hydro officials said that they could find no mechanical defect in Q-29BW's backup fuse. Then why did it blow? The question created a behind-the-scenes divergence between U.S. and Canadian power experts. Privately, American officials expressed doubts about the design of the backup relay system in service at the Beck plant. But Ontario Hydro officials claimed that its protective safeguards were comparable to those in use on U.S. high-voltage lines. Robert H. Hillery, Ontario Hydro's operations director, insisted that the disconnect-setting of Beck's backup fuses "was well above...
...longed for the freer life, and just as the Berliner Ensemble was completing a triumphant London engagement, he chose to defect. He easily received a West German passport, a temporary home with his married half-brother outside Cologne, even a job offer. Yet, only eight days after he arrived in the Rhineland's Lorelei-land, he returned to East Berlin. His brother tried to understand. "Christian obviously stood in conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from...
...forcibly take the consort home, but he is so dispirited and uncooperative that it is finally decided that the best solution is to assassinate him. How the prince consort survives this plot is the climax to a story that is well written and amusingly bawdy. Its only serious defect, in fact, is that it is in appallingly bad taste...