Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their job much more seriously and devoutly than English ones do... I admire this unreservedly.... The result when it's seen onstage is nearly always exciting, but you often get the feeling that the whole thing has been cooked up in a hermetically sealed oven. But that is the defect of a great virtue, which is work, work, work...
...student governing committee and began to be called sotsu-no-nai, which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...
...number of A.P. Sophomores is increasing, since three girls managed to accumulate the necessary three credits for the first time this year, and were admitted to the 'Cliffe as Sophomores. One reason why only three have taken the proffered advancement seems to be lack of publicity, although this defect is rapidly being remedied. More-over, educators are not always in a hurry to expedite young ladies' schooling. The headmistress of a Midwestern girls' school says, "Girls are not going into careers right after college, the way boys are. I don't see any reason for shortening a girl's education...
...spirited, well-played finale. But the rest of it, and Corelli's "Christmas" Concerto, which opened the concert sounded as if the orchestra were merely going through the motions. The intonation was unaccountably bad, the playing colorless, and the ensemble work in the winds unusually slipshod. The most noticeable defect was the strings' inability to play piano with any tone at all but a rather lifeless one, lacking intensity and variety...
...selection printed in the Advocate has the virtue of containing ideas, both explicit, as the narrator is intelligent and articulate, and, we may infer, implicit, as Robinson can control the relationship between the reader and the narrator. Unfortunately, a defect of the "excerpt from a novel" as a literary form is here evident; the figure of the narrator can only begin to emerge. The reader finishes wanting to see more and unable to find it in print...