Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of this organization Davis' main concern-and job-is to connect OWI with the White House, and with the people. Actually he does nothing much in particular, either way, and this is not necessarily his fault. For, speaking largely, no one has conclusively proved that OWI has fulfilled any of the purposes for which...
...himself up for hours before the performance, going over every detail with meticulous care. Said he: "I have a great responsibility to the audience. I would not go out to a nightclub the evening before I sing. If I did, and my performance was poor, it would be my fault...
...This is not the fault of the daily newspapers; they print all the news. It is not the fault of the weekly 'reviews' ; they adequately develop and comment on the news. The reason people are uninformed is that no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed...
Technically these men run institutions that are conservative to a fault. Against 4,000-odd bank failures in 1933, there were only nine last year. Bank deposits (up to $5,000) are insured by FDIC. Though excess reserves are down, member banks carry $13 billions with the Federal; and behind the Federal is the Treasury's $22 billions in gold...
...most glaring fault that a survey of programs would show, is that they have been as unbalanced as Humpty Dumpty on his wall, and neither Dr. Koussevitsky nor his orchestra have been able to put them together very coherently. I have heard enough late nineteenth and early twentieth century works to last me through three seasons. Music of such mediocrity as Lopatnikoff's Sinfonictta Opus 27, Martinu's 1st Symphony, Bennett's "Sights and Sounds," and Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" have been foisted off under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms...