Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snapped Café Filho. His smile vanished, and his fist came down hard on the desk. " While I am President nothing will be done that is against the law and justice. Nothing-do you understand?" His voice softened. "Perhaps you cannot understand," he said. "It is not your fault. It is the fault of a system we are trying to change...
...series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region's character...
...prose still gropes in feudal gloom, the three example of verse do display a rising talent. H. B. Corning's title page swipe at football ticket distribution flows neatly, and the effect is only slightly dampened by a rather inept ending. Lack of a punchline is also the principal fault of his verse-captions for a two-page spread on football weekends. The redeeming features of these two layouts are Hill's cartoons. Another such display, Ah, Radcliffe Girl, suffers conversely; Fletcher's verse is clever and light, but most of the drawings, by J. G. Marcos...
...feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying: 'It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate in the fruits of my exertions.' The House Dog replied, 'Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others...
Despite this humble assumption of fault, almost Chinese in its politeness, Leighton Stuart cannot refrain from criticizing his superiors. When the State Department published its white paper-which justified the Acheson line on China and blamed the Nationalists for everything-Ambassador Stuart recalls being "astonished and alarmed . . . shocked ... perplexed and filled with apprehension." The white paper, concludes Stuart, was "an accurate display of the materials on which the U.S. Government relied [for] its decisions . . . What had been omitted were materials . . . which had not been relied upon." The implication is strong that his own advice was not relied upon...