Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some few among us seem to be successful experiments, much too valuable to be discarded lightly in the vast game of trial and error in which we are all discarded, in which we may indeed lead to something but may never, any one of us, be anything permanent. If we are to choose out of the men we thought worthy to survive beyond their times, our lists would be brief and they would not be the same, but Robert Sherwood would stand high in the balloting...
...steady and alarming rise in Roman Catholic membership and power in the U.S. Attacking Catholicism is hardly a solution. Instead, Protestant churchmen might try preaching the Holy Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If this were done, Protestantism would again have appeal as true Christianity, and Roman error would naturally be unable to cope with the light of Truth...
...Through Error. For community orchestra managers-often amateurs who had to learn their business by trial and error -the league now runs annual training sessions. Included in the curriculum: how to select guest artists and evaluate their fees; how and where to get music and musicians; how to achieve proper balance of power between manager, conductor, board of directors and musicians-and generally, how to keep a whole town happily working for its orchestra...
...Parallel Thinking." Again and again he talked of security; again and again the West brought him back to the reunification of Germany. Molotov abandoned his "all-Europe" security plan and produced a new one based on a tactical error committed by Prime Minister Anthony Eden at the first summit meeting. Eden had tentatively proposed zones of controlled armed forces on either side of the present East-West German border-instead of on the eastern border of a reunited Germany, as the West now wants. Britain's Macmillan forcefully rejected both Molotov's proposal, and, by implication, Eden...
Deadfall's first blunder is to show all this at the outset, so that the second, or courtroom, half of the evening merely drives in the coffin nails. There is no suspense and-a second serious error-no final twist that might help save the day. Among other blunders, the writing is studiously mediocre...