Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give interviews is suicidal. The statement ascribed to me [from a San Francisco Chronicle interview] about the "muskets at Cressy" being "as effective in their time" as the atom bomb burdens me with two absurdities. The first was my fault; I should have remembered, even in the excitement of being interviewed by two fair women, that there were no muskets at Cressy. The second was due to forgivable abbreviation in the press; what I said was that there had been as much advance in military destructiveness between Cressy (1346) and 1939 as between 1939 and Hiroshima; and that the increased...
...whole trouble, Harry Truman thought, was just a matter of semantics (see EDUCATION). "Instead of the word 'planning,' the people who find fault with us when we talk about planning for economic purposes are thinking about controlled economy, not planned economy. The distinction is different, if you analyze it closely...
...devised to correct this fault, Wright said, "It is a conservation step along the lines started by distribution 40 years ago," and Harvard has been behind many other colleges in adopting...
...last week, Amy Mallard was probably as unpopular in Toombs County, Ga. as her husband Robert ("Big Duck") Mallard had been before he was lynched. The lynching had caused a lot of trouble and almost everyone thought that was Amy's fault. Big Duck had been a "real uppity nigger"-some said he even wanted to be called mister-and most of Toombs County thought he'd gotten just what he deserved...
...Theater Workshop. Only spasmodically during the evening did "Richard III" show the imagination and artistry that ran throughout the last four HTW shows. Most of all, the actors at the Copley do not have much "feel" for what little poetry is given them to work with, a fault they share with the majority of Broadway actors, however...