Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recent history points to the flaw in the theory. As it happens, losers have an awfully hard time controlling anything thereafter. Alf Landon certainly didn't control the Republican Party after 1936. Neither did Wendell Willkie after 1940, or Dick Nixon after 1960. Tom Dewey did maintain his control between 1944 and 1948, but he did it with the help of a superb political machine. Goldwater has no such machine, and the chances that he could control the G.O.P. after defeat seem negligible...
...flaw, clearly, is not in the product but the packaging. There should be a way to enjoy Moravia's stories a few at a time. Until some publisher has a better idea, why not bind small bouquets of them, like cinema short subjects, into the first pages of the next 500-page novel about Rome...
...artless sketches (with a lifetime of craft behind each deceptively negligent line) have a heartbreaking quality when the reader recalls that these glittering trivia were cut and polished by a man soon to take his own life. So the reader searches for a clue to the tragic flaw in a nature that seemed all confidence and gallantry, and finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could make the humdrum business...
With the new influx of applications, however, this procedure has already caused a thorny administration problem and may give rise in the future to a serious flaw in the entire administration procedure...
...more serious flaw lies in the film's slick casting. Lee Tracy delivers Man's best performance, repeating his stage role as a former President, a tough old war horse who is dying of cancer but savors a final taste of power as two party hopefuls battle to win his support. "There is nothing like a dirty, lowdown political fight to put the roses in your cheeks," snaps Tracy with cantankerous glee. The candidates before him are Cliff Robertson, a cutthroat crusader who adapts his convictions to the latest Gallup surveys, and Henry Fonda, the idealistic egghead. Fonda...