Word: fault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This would have been an effective ending, I thought, but for one curious fault: the word "fuck" seemed inadequate. Somehow that most onomatopoeic word for "doing it" just wasn't strong enough any more...
...dynamic change, absolute audibility and visibility, manageable balance, tremendous possibilities for sheer sounds, and maximum polyphonic delineation. The Biss Quarter demonstrated both the advantages and potential tediousness of the mercurial technician. Biss's combination of strategies included collegno, microtonesia, and heroic written out glissandi. The work 's primary fault was monotony of radical techniques. The cumulative effect--if that is a proper term since it is not clear since it is not cleat whether the work is sequential, progressive, or in any way organic--was not irritation but incipient somnolence. While some moments were undeniably refreshing, the work lacked stylistic...
...newcomers, as well as most veterans, seem fascinated by the mystery of the true nature of the emerging presidential Nixon. "None of us know this man very well," says Oberdorfer. Yet few fault him for his relative distance from the press. "A certain arm's-length position is a wholesome one on the part of press and President," says Peter Lisagor, who has been covering the White House for the Chicago Daily News since the Eisenhower days. "If we're too close, we lose our detachment, and if he's too close, we keep seeing...
...students substantiated the Juniors' charges agains President Quincy and added one of their own: that Quincy actually told Barnwell when he arrived at Harvard that he did not like his attitude, and he had better watch out. In the end they commented in a vein of fairness "that the fault lies by no means upon the students alone. . . . We cannot but think that the renewal of the disturbances was owing to a want of discretion on the part of the President...
...very important. In your cover story on "Rage and Reform on Campus" [April 18], you quote me as characterizing the style of the university by rationality and stability. Actually, the wire services earlier made the same error in reporting a press conference here. Probably it's my own fault for not enunciating more clearly. The word I actually used was civility, which is much more important for universities today than stability. Civility becomes increasingly vital if university people-faculty, students and administration-are to discuss instead of demand, reason rather than shout, mutually respect rather than mutually recriminate, depend...