Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointing film because its core, the ballet, is not good. The fault lies in the filming, editing, and staging, not in the dancing. The camera is not expected to film a ballet entirely from fifth-row-center but neither should it show the movements of the dance as if they were viewed from an aerial kaleidoscope. The whole effect (except for the final bit at the church) is only that--effect. One gets the idea of Miss Shearer leaping through seas of rippling cellophane and grotesque faces, but there are hardly 20 continuous minutes of sustained dancing. Miss Shearer...
...high Washington official emphasized the present hopelessness of the whole Chinese situation, on which the U.S., for the past three years, had turned its back. The U.S. had made mistakes, he pointed out, which could not be corrected overnight. China's Nationalist government was also deeply at fault. Something was obviously wrong with Nationalist military leadership. Why, for example, had well-trained, well-equipped Nationalist divisions refused to fight at Mukden...
...fault," David Calirl and Paul Ziluca both '51, said last night. "We usually lock the door but Saturday we didn't and that's what happened...
...Anglo-American Council on Productivity was thrashing out ways & means of increasing British industrial efficiency. Labor's own Daily Mirror berated the dockers' action as "a strike against prosperity, a refusal to go forward with modern methods." Actually, in this case the employers were much at fault. When they put the stacking truck in, they violated a 1929 law forbidding employers to install labor-saving machines without consulting the workers first...
Caesar's Fault. Shaw seems just to be getting up full steam on Darwinism when he jumps the track and chugs off on a discussion of the English language. "An intelligent child who is bidden to spell debt, and very properly spells it det, is caned for not spelling it with a b because Julius Caesar spelt the Latin word for it with...