Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which runs at the end of its article a large box on the "Rulers of Harvard"--with the University Board of Overseers listed alongside of their positions in large corporations. The obviously-intended suggestion that James B. Conant is a Charlie McCarthy for Big Business illustrates well the chief fault of the leftist journal. Written by reporters whose mental imagery consists of David Low cartoons, the news articles by overdone cynicism and mudslinging antagonize rather than convince the reader. The Hearst tactic of headlines which exaggerate and misinterpret the stories is also used...
Benito talked a great deal about how gloriously the lion-hearted Fascisti had departed from Libya and Greece. It was all the fault of the British for attacking too soon, said he. Besides, Italy had been fighting in Ethiopia and Spain. Besides and besides, Italy was pretty brave to fight Great Britain at all ("a matter of pride that will live through the centuries"). Adolf had less explaining to do. He was full of confidence for the future: "Where British ships will appear, and where Britain will fight us, we will fight them and destroy them. . . . I have fought with...
Gimpy's only fault is that he likes to land on the way home, sometimes leads his recruits into a grassy plot for a rest and stroll, while he stumps around, gabbling officiously. But no one in Fort Monmouth's pigeon company will admit that these fine feathered soldiers ever hitch rides on Army trucks...
...older generation is at fault for "the disillusionment, the cynicism, the hardboiledness of the younger generation" about the war and the problems it raises for America, Walter M. Kotschnig. Smith College Professor of Education and Child Study, and student of unemployment problems, asserted today in the Harvard Educational Review published by the Graduate School of Education...
...some time now, I've hesitated to say anything about the ASCAP-BMI fight, purely because I don't believe I know enough about it. Who's at fault is hard to say, although Uncle Sam seems to have all the answers. For may part I'll put a plague on both houses and hope they get it in the neck for trying to put one over on the public...