Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steps, a Utopian fantasy of what the world might be like if people lived literally according to Christ's teachings (TIME, Oct. 9). Published in 1899, it has sold 8,000,000* copies, four times as many as its nearest competitor. Because of a flaw in the copyright, Author Sheldon received no royalties from his book. Compiler Weeks lists 65 titles. The first 19, after In His Steps...
...moments, chattering in dialect. Lawyer Simon's stepchildren are nasty urchins who despise him for an illbred Jew. His secretary worships him. Not so a fervent young Communist (Vincent Sherman) with a broken head who convincingly berates Lawyer Simon as a traitor to his class. The only flaw to be found in John Barrymore's gothically elaborate characterization of a dramatic personage in a forceful, facile story is the fact that he never for an instant seems to be the Jew he is supposed to be. Good shot: a plaintively self-conscious clerk inviting Lawyer Simon...
...flaw which Dr. Abbot regretted was an occasional unexpected lag in expected variations, ascribed to irregularity in sunspot development. With long-range weather forecasting as his great goal, he is now preparing temperature & precipitation predictions "for numerous stations in all parts of the world for many years in advance...
...flaw in this prounciamento rests not in its legality, for the Supreme Court was, and is, composed of men whose consecration in life is to the high art of being legal. But it is not their consecration to be philosophers, and perhaps that is why, with the exception of Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardozo, the Court is fifty years behindhand in its political philosophy. The Roscoe Pound of a golden prime was wont to insist that law was in really social engineering; now he talks ponderously of the common courts and of their law which must chiefly enforce our security. When...
...instead of people. At the two Hallam parties-in which most of the action of the play goes forward-the guests behave with such dismal lack of manners that it is hard to believe that anyone clever enough to marry Stella could fail to share her dismay. With this flaw, Another Language remains a sharp, dreadful and amusing picture of middle-class domesticity especially notable for a brilliant performance by Louise Closser Hale, who died last fortnight. Good shot: old Mrs. Hallam reviving from a faint when she hears the Victrola playing at the Victor Hallams' party...