Word: defectiveness
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...prime defect of "realistic" writers was their unrealistic failure to understand that "no man lives in the external truth, among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied walls." "True realism," Stevenson concluded, "always and everywhere is ... to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice. . . . For to miss the joy is to miss...
...long run, these were details which might be ironed out. There was a far greater defect. As London's New Statesman and Nation said: "American assistance on such a scale cannot reasonably be expected unless Congress is presented not merely with a demand note from an Amalgamated Union of Beggars, but with convincing evidence that . . . the recipients will cooperate in undertaking to increase their own productivity and their eventual ability economically to stand on their own feet." Washington simply did not feel that the Paris Plan presented that kind of evidence...
...effect on Custer: "The giant had been stabbed in the back by pygmies. His pride had been severely wounded, and the wound festered, leaving an ugly scar. This scar could be made less . . . disfiguring only by repolishing his reputation to a brilliance that would blind the public to the defect...
...Theologians also have much to say about confidence and hope and the means of cultivating these good habits. ... In connection with Freud's capital concept of repression, which consists of the violent submergence of undesirable stimuli in the unconscious, they might look into its conscious counterpart, a defect of prudence which the classic moralists called inconsideratio...
...does not work. And surgeons have begun to argue fiercely about whether it is better to cut the nerves above or below the diaphragm. Another complication: cutting the vagus reduces the stomach's ability to eliminate food, and further operations may be necessary to remedy that defect...