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...doctor's activities or cooperated with the West German inquiry. The family's aloofness and secrecy had convinced some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...
THIS SORT of inconsistency is the only major drawback of Things Invisible to See, but it is a big one. It is, essentially, a love story, but a novel that starts off with the Lord of the Universe and His archangels playing hall, and winds up with Mathewson on the mound and Lou Gehrig playing first, seems to call for a lot more baseball than Willard has seen fit to include. She certainly touches on an awful lot of other things, and perhaps it is because she does tackle so much that the leisurely. Saturday-afternoon-pickup...
...drawback to being a piano player is that, unlike most other instruments, you can't take yours with you, and the quality of strange pianos may be poor. Blacklow says that travel can be difficult for him, because he must find a piano immediately. On a recent trip to Florida, for example, he had to obtain permission from the manager of the hotel where he was staying to use the piano in the hotel lounge during if-hours...
...teenager Pfiliades this is no problem in fact, she says, she thinks it's fun to have to try on the clothes on the selling room floor. As Harler says, "This is a drawback only for people with weird bodies...
Tekkies agree--one major drawback to their job is that sets are not always noticed. Says Pforzheimer, "If things are right, then the set shouldn't be noticed at all. You shouldn't notice the door until it comes off the hinges...