Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your well-cropped, well-colored cuts and well-cropped, well-colored story about Nate's Air Force can hardly be found at fault in its facts . . . However much the Air Force, in its so-called Year I, may hope to hold onto its skilled personnel in larger numbers, it faces a single, simple, unchanging attitude toward re-enlistment in its enlisted ranks-freedom v. institutionalism. Civil life or the same old saluting crud for another four years. We are the freest enlisted men in the world-and even among U.S. services. But . . . not quite free enough...
...that it lies in the mucous glands, which secrete an unusually thick, viscid mucus. This clogs the lung airways and also blocks the tiny ducts in the pancreas, so that its enzymes (notably trypsin) do not get through to the digestive tract. Others think the pancreas itself is at fault, and that its failure to produce enough enzymes causes both the intestinal trouble and the stickiness of the mucus...
...students manage to get an education at all, of course, it is not entirely the fault of the faculty. The typical Harvard professor is not notable for his Chipsian qualities, nor is he apt to be an enthusiast for the open house ("Do drop in any time," said one legendary professor. "Next May, for instance"). He is forever disappearing behind laboratory doors, or vanishing into the Widener stacks. Once there, he is a law unto himself...
...temptors who offer various forms of temporal power, Louis Begley and John Docker are only fair. Begley over-acts to the point of appearing a scheming spy, and Docker's offer of a coalition between bishop and barons seems too gruff and intense. All four share the same fault in the last act speeches, when the knights suddenly abandon their roles of drunken killers and become apologists for their deeds. Although their explanations are fantastic, Eliot included them to show the earnest fervor with which the murder was done. But in the HDC production, the four knights seemed scarcely...
Probably the largest fault of the production is the lack of direction. Morely, besides designing the almost non-existant sets, was musical director, while Mary Arnold handled the acting. In neither case was the job really well done. With but a little more effort (or possibly luck) Pinafore could be as good as the highly competent Trial...