Word: flaw
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Although expansion has been accomplished by plunging many farmers into debt, the only serious flaw in the changed economic structure, this has not tempered the general optimism. Chanzeaux, Wylie reports, is no longer fatalistic about its future. When he asked, "What's going to happen?" the answer last month was on verra bien (we'll see about it) instead of the usual c'est sera sera (what will be will be). This new confidence is changing what Chanzeaux--and the rest of France--expects from politics, and moderating the passion with which villagers have traditionally treated political controversy...
Forgotten Flaw. In the early performances, something went wrong at the end. After recording with satirical relish the expanding fortune of a vicious, backbiting, devious, ruthless little sweet-smiling crud, the show ended with a number called Brotherhood of Man, delivered in a manner that seemed to say: "All right, fellas, all right, we've just been kidding around for two hours; we really love each other, we all believe in Help the Other Fellow and Turn the Other Cheek; now let's all say we're buddies and go home." Star Bobby Morse lacked mordancy...
...sticky, squint-eyed world of the stamp collector was rocked to its very perforations last week. It was a flurry over a flaw, and as every one of the U.S.'s more than 13 million stamp collectors knows, a flaw is worth far more than perfection. Rarity is, of course, the touchstone by which all stamps are valued; but more often than not, a rare stamp is different from millions of its counterparts only because it has some technical disfigurement. To the tweezer-and-magnifying-glass set, discovery of such minor imperfections as missing watermarks or too-much-violet...
...Juliet (Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, Tenor Cesare Va-letti, Bass Giorgio Tozzi; the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Berlioz' "symphony with chorus" is given a soaring, beautifully proportioned reading by Munch, and all three soloists contribute performances that are almost without flaw. As satisfactory a performance as the work is likely to find...
...though not unilateral) disarmament, spoke out vehemently in the House of Lords against the bill to slow nonwhite immigration from other Commonwealth countries. Last week the church proposed the establishment of a National Council of Alcoholism-predicated on the recognition that alcoholism is a disease rather than a moral flaw. In the continuing English debate on laws concerning prostitution, homosexuality and adultery, Ramsey holds that "morality is not best promoted by giving criminal status to every kind of grievous...