Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappointing performance in "The Tempest" was Thayer David's Prospero, which came as a surprise after his previous work. The fault may be the director's, (or my own, since it is a matter of interpretation rather than ability) but I cannot imagine Prospero as the dry, weary, manipulator that Mr. David makes him. Why shouldn't God, or Shakespeare, or whoever Prospero is, have as much fun as anybody? Since he is responsible for all the goings-on which produce such gaiety, why should he not be amused? Even Buddha smiles. Mr. David's magic-man is stern...
...that the melody is nothing but at "drinking tune." The Glee Club was obviously well trained by Professor Woodworth. They made no slips at all Friday afternoon, and the one minor error, Saturday, when, in one passage Kousse- vitzky cued them in a measure too late, was not their fault. The quartet of soloists included Frances Yeend, soprane; Eunice Alberts, contralto; David Lloyd, tenor, and James Pease, bass. Mr. Pease has a rather rough voice, and his intonation in the opening recitative was not very accurate. But the singing of the other three soloists was fine. The blending...
...month delay wasn't Barclay's fault, though. It took that long to hold playoffs among the 30 varsity candidates who showed up in March. Meanwhile, Barclay has been fielding the seven men who seemed best in practice...
...carried out diplomatically and efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...
...grooves at only a few spots. By reducing the number of grooves, Victor has virtually eliminated tracking error. But the total distortion normally created by tracking error is less than the distortion of most amplifiers, so that tracking error is not heard except on the very fine machines. The fault Victor is correcting in its "quality zone" is therefore one few listeners can detect...