Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worst fault: lack of outdoor exercise yards." I agree. To me the latter-day equivalent of "the patch of blue the prisoners call the sky" was one of the most difficult things. The overcrowding - even the little of it that I experienced...
Mozart's Haffner Symphony, which opened the program, was performed with superb spirit and interpretation, although the strings at times (especially in the second Andante movement) seemed a trifle muddy, a fault that often occurs even in the largest symphony orchestras...
...performance. His cadenza in the First Movement presented the theme powerfully, yet simply, and throughout the second (Largo) and third (Rondo Allegro) movements his interpretation continued to be spirited and full. It was regrettable that the attack of the orchestra seemed slightly rusty in the first movement, but this fault decreased as the work progressed...
...Many hospitals are very old-some go back to the 1860s. Others are poorly designed. Worst fault: lack of outdoor exercise yards...
...anything is likely to attract his punditry. He sums up the problem of teen age delinquency thus: "I don't blame the men in service at all these young girls are up town to get picked up they get picked up alright that is their fault. . . . I can't understand what is the matter with some of the parents some of these sixteen year old girls up town and out in the country all night. Maybe I am a little punchy and old fashioned but the old time parents they would knock your ears off if you wasn...