Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admittedly, the "special program" concept assumes that students will know what a good General Education program is, a rather curious assumption in view of the Faculty's confusion on this point. But the Constable group recognizes this flaw and offers the only possible remedy for it: the provision of close and knowledgeable advisors for each student, beyond his Freshman year and outside his field of concentration...
Fighting such rebellious material, Author Ashton-Warner's celebrated style -a vibrantly sentient torrent of present-tense sentences and fragments-shows signs of becoming an intrusive mannerism. Bell Call has an even worse flaw...
...possible defection of the Goldwaterites points up another flaw that even young, energetic, Gubernatorial Republicans cannot ignore. In most states, Republicans are in the minority. A successful Republican candidate must win the votes of independents and Democrats, but unless he has a great many of these, he must count on the Republican bedrock...
Doris Lessing has the rare skill to deal seriously with a female main character who falls into the large but artistically troublesome range between prostitute and nun. Perhaps because the novels are more autobiography than fiction, the author suffers curiously from her heroine's flaw of vision; she is unwilling to look with interest at anything outside Martha...
Sheridan's characters are engagingly simply persons, each supplied with an appropriate flaw. They confide all their secrets to the audience, and they warn us that in their world deep thought is forbidden. They allow only hearty laughter...