Word: fault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, improvement of the teaching effectiveness of lecturers, advisors, and section men. The report says that the University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer...
...days at Washington's National Zoological Park. Then the Navy medics want the carcass for an autopsy, just in case they have missed something. Pig No. 311 appears to be normal in every way except one: she is sterile. Was this the A-bomb's fault? Said a Navy spokesman cagily: ". . . Not necessarily . . . Ordinarily, enough gamma rays to cause sterility also will kill the victim...
...than Harry Truman's Fair Deal, no more revolutionary than the teachings of Abraham Lincoln. It wasn't Marx and Lenin who advocated force, he said. No, indeed. If violence came as a result of what the party proposed to do, said Dennis, it would be the fault of "reactionary groups [who] try to stop the march of social progress...
Quantity. In experiments last year Umbaugh induced three foster pregnancies, but all aborted. He believes now that the fault was multiple pregnancy: he had injected 15 ova at once, and cows have difficulty in carrying even twins. In future, he intends to insert only one fertilized ovum into each foster...
...Grimes" is not a very good argument for opera in English, and it cannot fall back on the translation excuse. The fault lies with librettist Montagu Slater. He doesn't seem to think in musical terms, so that there is a lot of pretty tedious recitative, much of which is superfluous. The verbosity has apparently proved too much for Britten, for his music, though following thought and mood, does not fit the words very skillfully. This failing was exaggerated Thursday night by poor diction on the part of both soloists and chorus...