Word: fault
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of sections is not at fault; potentially they offer much that is valuable. Proposals that there should be a "seminar" program recognize that questions in literature and political theory, for instance, should be picked apart in discussion. A strengthening of the present sections and introduction of seminar-type courses should thus be attempted...
American colleges and universities--both on the graduate and undergraduate level--will suffer from an acute shortage of teachers over the next ten years "unless something miraculous happens," Elder commented. This problem is not anyone's fault, he added, but merely a result of the vast numbers of "war babies" who will be reaching college age in the coming years...
...sales dropped to a low of $250 million in 1953. Part of the trouble was a shift in fashion; the longtime dictum that every woman had to wear a hat to be well dressed almost died in the flight to the suburbs and the new, casual living. But fault also lay with the hatmakers; hats became too silly even for women to wear. Says Designer Victor: "We forgot one thing-to make the hats pretty. All you have to do is show a woman that she looks prettier with a hat on than off, and money doesn't mean...
Professor Williams twists the knife a little deeper. He warns parents that American colleges are educationally inadequate for their children. The essence of his argument: "Students in our universities are not learning as they should and the teacher is at fault...
...many of the characters are not as vivid as they might be, it is not entirely the fault of the actors. There is some slight sense that they were a second thought on Mr. Miller's part, as if he regarded them simply as a means to his end of writing about the implications of witch-hunting. He appears to be a Brechtean at heart, but not in manner, and so has neither produced a passionate parable a la Brecht, nor created particularly memorable autonomous characters in the naturalistic tradition...