Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film has any serious fault (occasional jerkiness and slowness of episodes are minor ones), it lies close to the heart of Noel Coward's particular kind of talent. His deep affection and respect for his subject cannot be questioned, nor can his deep knowledge of it (he came from just such a background). But he is an extremely clever man, with a great flair and fondness for theatrical trick and design, which, at their worst, can use emotions as if they were stage properties. When clever men try to write with complete sincerity and, at the same time...
...dear boy . . . that's not my fault...
...college examinations are not affairs of fact and rote, it cannot be said that we trained the memory and impoverished the understanding. It is possible that, in brief compass, we taught our students to think on fundamentals sufficiently well to impress their academic mentors. If this be a fault, I ery "Peccavi...
Eleanor Roosevelt's note, that stress upon training individual personalities has done away with some of the essential disciplines, and Director Taylor's remark, "When learning becomes drudgery, it usually ceases to be productive," taken together point the way to the fault of schooling today. Attempting to be good teachers and to eliminate drudgery, we have failed to replace it with useful work...
Although a large share for the responsibility for the delay of the '49 Book must fall on the editorial officers, basically the fault lies in the mechanism of Council control. It can be argued with justification that the Council was overburdened this fall with problems of seemingly higher priority, such as the constitution. Even in the field of publications, two Senior Albums and two Red Books presented a challenge to legislative patience. As for the '49 Book, successive meetings saw one partially informed member convince the Council that everything was progressing according to schedule. By successive repetition, this hopeful hypothesis...