Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood basis for a legendary manhood. He gave the role his most sober and restrained performance to date. That he did not succeed entirely was partly the fault of the production, partly because the picture featured Mickey in a role so different from his usual ones that puzzled cinemaddicts did not know what bewildered them most-seeing Mickey Rooney as Thomas Alva Edison or the future Wizard of Menlo Park as ebullient Mickey Rooney...
...only Toscanini was at fault; the recording was nowhere near the excellence of something like "La Mer" by Koussevitsky, also on this month's release. The base is shallow and distorted, and the highs are brittle and sharp-all of which is exceedingly destructive to Beethoven...
...Lord Halifax contends, German youth has been "deliberately deprived of the elements of true judgment," this is hardly its own fault. It has been misled by its chauvinistic leaders, who, as his Lordship should remember, could only ascend to power in a Germany that had been crippled by Allied chauvinism at Versailles. Thus, if the German intellect has suffered a general blackout, Lord Halifax and his peace-loving generation should take their full share of credit...
Counting in private indebtedness, losses and gains canceled out. Of course, he had meant to include private indebtedness. If papers had not made that clear, it was the reporters' fault. Mr. Currie's memo proved it. Remembering how the President had wandered from the memo, the reporters thought but did not say: "That's right, you're wrong...
Obvious starting points for all four: 1) that war is international anarchy caused by unbridled nationalism; 2) that "international morality" has disappeared; 3) that all nations are partly at fault for World War II; 4) that a way out can be 'found short of violent revolution; 5) that the Allied war aims, as so far stated-to crush Hitler and protect the small countries-are considerably less than clear or inspiring. But the authors of these books find plenty of room for argument...