Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conduct of Senator McCarthy. A large part of this identification can be credited to the fact that European democrats, inevitably thinking in terms of parliamentary government, have only the dimmest understanding of the U.S. separation of executive and legislative powers. Their lack of instruction is scarcely the fault of Senator McCarthy-or President Eisenhower-but the effect is not mitigated by this. The effect is that the President and the anti-McCarthy Republicans quite often seem to horrified European onlookers like rabbits transfixed by the headlights of an onrushing truck...
After checking 135 union welfare funds, the Insurance Department found fault with 62, nearly half, and suggested state supervision for all. C.I.O. President Walter Reuther acted fast. "The C.I.O. cannot and will not tolerate crooks," said he. "The union official who preys upon . . . funds . . . has no place in the labor movement, and should be sent to jail." Six C.I.O. local leaders-including "Good Administrator" Rosenzweig-were suspended and physically barred from their offices. The A.F.L., for its part, called for annual audits of all A.F.L. union finances, including the welfare funds...
...fellow playwrights went absolutely Gorky ("Dawn over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...However," conceded the broadcaster, "the useful work of the language classes is still hampered by some defects-such as irregular attendance and lack of industry on the part of the students. The fault is partly that of the teachers, who present the subject in a boring form...
...President (unnamed) when he detrains in a small town called Suddenly (because it makes a good title for the film). Sinatra demonstrates that the years of microphone fixation, aggravated perhaps by the recitation of popular-song lyrics, have given him a full command of pathological gesture; but through no fault of Sinatra's, the pathology takes up so much screen time that moviegoers might fittingly be provided with white coats. Still, the general impression is that he acts a good deal more imaginatively than he ever sang. Good shot: the triggerman, boobytrapped by an automatic rifle wired...