Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly any story appearing in the Advocate's pages might be criticized, but there is no reason why this cannot be done intelligently; no reason why we should not be told wherein and in what way the author is at fault. Mr. Halberstam makes the attempt in his discussion (sic) of the Hoagland story, but he does not try again. Rather, he asserts that the Cumming story cannot structurally stand by itself; and proves his point by mentioning imagery in one of Cumming's sentences (!) He furthermore groups Sean Sweeney's stories with the poetry, says he "plays with words...
...David Sarnoff said that his company was doing "everything we know how to advance color TV for the home . . . I don't know to whom Senator Johnson refers . . ." Added CBS, whose noncompatible* system was approved by FCC 2½ years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950): the fault lies with the Government, which restricted production on color TV equipment...
...that other story, that 'Benny Cox'," Alice continued. "Just a minute," said the March Hare, "you've got to realize that that's part of a novel." "That isn't my fault," said Alice. "If they print them as excerpts they should be able to stand by themselves. If they can't stand by themselves, why bother printing them? In a chase, you've got to feel something about the person being hunted. You've got to want him to escape or be captured. In this story, though, you don't know enough to care one way or the other...
Joining him on the panel was Frederic Hoffman. Visiting professor of English Hoffman attacked a aviate peculiar to the twenties alone as the period's greatest fault, but said that the resulting "fearless investigation" had a purgative influence on American thought...
...Westbrook Poglor's palmier days, before the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt darkened the horizon, the fiery columnist wrote an essay entitled "Are Wrestlers People?" In his customary forthright way, Pegler concluded that any resemblance between "genus home" and "genus grappler" was in no way the fault of the wrestler...