Word: defectiveness
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...Clearest Sketch. This sobering reflection on the limits of military power-even $70 billion worth of military power a year-calls attention to the great defect in the present U.S. world position. There is no forward motion toward a goal-no end in view. Since the political and military paths seem to offer no hope of decisive progress, the U.S. has begun-belatedly-to explore the possibilities of a broad economic advance on the part of the non-Communist world...
...there's not one that holds good. They have taken from us neither ships, nor cannons, nor a foot of land; they treated our prisoners with great humanity; they have given us 40 billion lire [$65 million]. Unfortunately all these claims on our gratitude are obscured by one defect of which there isn't the slightest hope that Americans can be cured because it's in their blood, it's constitutional. It is the craze for improving us, for making us try to be in every way kinder to each other, juster, richer, happier...
...them should be far easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will be studied for months by the same medical team that operated on the Brodies...
Ultimately the worst defect of the Old Vic production is that by using an almost uncut text it makes matters too sluggish and protracted for a musical spectacle (while so much dancing and music are fatal to any true unfolding of the play). There is thus no harmonized effect, only a medley of impressions; and along with much that is genuinely charming about equally much that is unmercifully dull...
Examples of this character defect cited by the majority included...