Word: faults
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Tseng praised the individual responsibility of tennis as one of its character-building traits. "When you're out there, it's just you and your opponent," Tseng says. "If you lose it is your fault and you have to learn to accept the responsibility...
Accordingly, on this latest foray, Marlowe not only interviewed official sources but also sought out ordinary Algerians. When she phoned the mother of a friend who had fled the country, the woman begged her not to visit. "She was afraid I'd get killed, and it would be her fault," says Marlowe. "But when I showed up at her apartment, she threw her arms around me and cried...
THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE DIVORCE MORE difficult to obtain should know that this approach was tried before with disastrous results. In the middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had both divorce for cause and no-fault divorce. Justinian, as a good Christian, felt that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed...
Tolstoy, famously fault finding, disliked Uncle Vanya. "Where is the drama?" he demanded. "It doesn't go anywhere." True, bullets are fired, but nobody is felled; vows of love are tendered, but none are consummated. Vanya is someone who has come to realize, belatedly, that his life "has been hopelessly wasted." He has sacrificed everything for his elderly brother-in-law, a pompous professor. Vanya's despair and resignation eventually give way to hysterical action: he picks up a pistol and goes after his brother-in-law. As usual, his aim is off, leaving him rueful: "To have made such...
...Amada," the most common form of his middle name. If the author sometimes relies too heavily on Freudian interpretations of symbols-" ... the adoption of the name Adam also has the ancillary effect of canceling God's direct presence-Theophilus [one of Mozart's middle names]"-it is a small fault when measured against the book's overall achievement...