Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Composers commissioned him to compose the second* opera under its Composers' Theater plan for opera suitable for colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily cast and staged. Commission for the libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
Coon is universally regarded as an A-1 teacher; he has sparkle, humor, and a thorough grasp of his broad field. His courses on American, European, Asia, Africa, and Oceania are consistently first-rate, and show a careful selection of only the best material. His sole fault seems to be a sometimes hazy organization. Unfortunately, Coon may not be here next year, although he will probably be back the year following...
...general education and a scientific view of man and his customs. Ward and Kidder both give sound preparation for the divisionals. The former, however, tends to do all the talking at conferences, and the latter is somewhat over-specialized. Coon lets his tutees get away with murder. A general fault is that most of the tutors attempt to force their own inter fests upon tutees as regards thesis topics...
...should do so as an Empire; not as an island kingdom. Simply in terms of the flow of capital, Britain had put too much of her waning capital outside the Empire and too little into building up the Dominions. And the Dominions themselves were equally, or more greatly, at fault. They tried to "stabilize" themselves-in the fatal worldwide mood of fixed prices and fixed hours-instead of vigorously expanding themselves throughout the vast real estate which God and their fathers had given them...
...checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school seniors, directed that every senior must be in shipshape condition when he graduates in June. Needy students will get free medical and dental treatment. Seniors who qualify will get a certificate of fitness; those who remain unfit through their own fault will be flunked in physical education, may thereby fail to graduate...