Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While members of Italy's Chamber of Deputies listened in hostile silence, Zoli glumly reminded them that it was not his fault that he was Premier of Italy. True to his original promise, he had resigned office just as soon as the tellers finally confirmed that without Fascist support he would have been one vote short of a majority (TIME, June 17). But when President Giovanni Gronchi, unable to find anyone else, coolly declared that Zoli was still Premier, "I felt," burbled Zoli into the silence, "that I had to accede to so high an authority." So ended Italy...
Meaning of Advocacy. Writing for the majority, Justice Harlan laid the fault principally on District Judge William C. Mathes for issuing "fatally defective" instructions to the jury at the 1952 trial. Judge Mathes had instructed the jury that "advocacy and teaching" under the Smith Act did not mean merely talking about the "desirability" or "propriety" of overthrowing the U.S. Government by force and violence. Instead, said Mathes, it required "urging" the "necessity" and "duty" of violent, forcible overthrow...
...baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts in both albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader and Rita Streich (Decca). Despite the good singing, the recordings suffer from the opera's basic structural fault. Groundbreaker though he was in his own day, Composer Gluck stuck too closely to wearisome, undramatic alternation of choral passages and recitatives, thus kept his often lovely work from stirring into full-bodied life...
...Symphony in Three Movements suffered from ragged string playing and the incompetent pianist. This is no fault of the conductor, who has an unorthodox but very clear beat; he just had a bad orchestra to work with...
...much of the world fell for the slogans about the Chinese Reds as mere agrarian reformers, about Nationalist corruption, etc.. it was, says Chiang, partly his government's fault: "We lacked initiative in propaganda and substance in ideology." The Red victory, by Chiang's reckoning, was only 20% military; for the rest he details the case histories of treachery, infiltration, propaganda, the exploitation of an uprooted social order. One of the Reds' earliest tactics, recalls Chiang, was to incite the poor of a village to loot before Communist agents burned down the house of the landlords...