Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Learning from Their Elders. "Who is more at fault, the bribed or the bribers? The bribed have been false to their oaths and betrayers of their trust. But they are often relatively simple men [who] weaken before the temptations held out to them by the unscrupulous. Who are the bribers? They are often men who walk the earth, lordly and secure, members of good families respected figures ... Is it too much to ask of them that they behave with simple honesty- with that honesty which looks, not to the letter of the law, but to its spirit...
Last year's council did all these things. Then it examined each rule with strict attention to necessity, desirability, practicability, and consequences. It was not the council's fault that Dean Watson and the Administrative Board chose to ignore a large part of its objections and the whole of their basis in principle. The little green sheet was enacted by the deans and printed up far too late for the fall council to consider...
...loses himself in his literary obsession, Leda becomes bored, is seduced by a commonplace Casanova, Silvio's barber. In a climax of selfdiscovery, Silvio realizes that his wife has been unfaithful, that he is a failure as a writer, and that most of their troubles are his own fault. Humbled, he hopes to patch up his marriage: "To accept my status as a human being ... a decent fellow . . . modestly conscious of his own limitations ... the lover, and the beloved, of a young and beautiful wife...
Queuille committed himself to the principle of electoral reform, on which all the coalition parties agree, but supported the principle in such general terms that no group-for the moment-had anything to find fault with. He expressed his hope that an election would be held "before next summer...
...months as a visiting lecturer in Continental universities (The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium), Perry Miller, professor of American literature at Harvard, felt distinctly uneasy. Between the educated American and the educated European there seemed to stand an intellectual wall that made real understanding impossible. Was it the fault of U.S. education, which his European friends called "superficial and materialistic"? Not at all, declares Miller in the current Atlantic Monthly, the fault is European...