Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Economics," by Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, and "British Colonies and the War," by Marcus James '43 are both brief, dull, but thoroughly factual, and provide a worthwhile variation from the Guardian's tendency to emphasize theoretical material, a fault which has occurred more consistently in the past than in the current issue...
...Marquand told the jammed house at Loew's State last night, after the picture had been shown, that if any of the lines in the movie were bad, the fault lies with director King, Vidor and Robert Young. If any of the lines are good, he added, it is because they are his. Mr. Marquand's concern is unnecessary, and he need not lose much sleep over the transfer of his subtle literary satire from paper to celluloid. It is an excellent film, well-acted and brilliantly directed, and Harvard graduates from Maine to Texas will rejoice in the gentle...
...unfavorable aspects. For in "Suspicion" Alfred Hitchcock has taken a rather slow plot and, with all the tricks of his trade (some of them old, some of them new), has made it into a good, tense, psychological thriller. If there are moments when the movie drags, it is the fault of the plot not of Mr. Hitchcock; but if at times the directories touch becomes a little trite and a little too apparent, the blame rests entirely on Hitchcock's shoulders...
...minor but irritating fault: The Opera's authors repeatedly employ a word which they spell "unctious...
Miss Welty has a clean, original prose style, which is clearly self-taught. In one page after another, she turns up sharp landscapes and atmospheres, details of costume, action and speech, with flashes of real brilliance. Her worst fault is her lust for melodrama, of the insidious sort which lies less in violence than in tricked atmosphere...