Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatal Flaw. Such a novel, if it is to be any good, must be a study in the nature of power and the behavior of those who seek it. Shakespeare set his great stage on this theme, but otherwise things have sadly changed. Uneasy still lies the head that wears a crown-the $80,000-a-year presidency. Nobody tells old President Edwards, due for mandatory retirement, anything he does not want to hear. He is even provided with the tragic flaw of the Shakespearean hero. He likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file...
...Flaw." In the emotion of the moment, such hair-shirtism was inevitable. But it would be as wrong to accuse a whole people or a nation of such extremism as it would be to argue for hatred. And perhaps it remained for Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton, rising in the U.S. Senate, to best place it all within context: "It was not a flaw in the American system or the American character that struck down John Kennedy. It was not the sin of a city or of its citizens. It was not a tragedy that struck from some dark stain...
...major flaw in City Politics results from the size of the authors' task. In order to make general observations about all cities they have discussed exciting figures such as Laguardia, Curley, Moses, Hague, Murphy, and DeSapio only as examples of various aspects of politics, not as individuals. Not only are these men interesting, but they have also assumed essential roles in determining the political processes of their cities. In attempting to deal with all cities, Banfield and Wilson have distilled away an essential ingredient of urban politics: the ability of individual politicians to change the political nature of their...
Nevertheless, despite the heavy pressure from right and left, Bosch might have stayed in power. But his administration suffered from a momentous strategic flaw: the president's inflexibility. During his years of exile, Bosch's political sense was developed from textbook democracy and the model of United States politics. As a result, Bosch tried to rule from theory, not from pragmatic understanding of Dominican needs...
...almost all excellently portrayed. They are easier to do, since the characters never change during the play. Only Cleopatra changes; Caesar, since he contains within him all characteristics, cannot be said to change in any essential way. Everybody else is a two-dimensional person. This would be a flaw in most plays; but not here. Shaw intentionally surrounded his two stars with people who are not original. They are fixed beings, and act only from habit or system. For Caesar (and for Shaw) such people are fools--but indisponsable all the same...