Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night-Sea Journey" is a monologue of a spermatazoa on its way to the ovum. It is amusing, and, unlike the other stories, is about love, however abstractly that compact may be presented. There is, though, a basic flaw in the piece: In fantastic literature, the author is allowed to make any conditions he likes, but once these are established, the action must be within their limits. The reader will allow Barth to allow a spermatazoa to meditate, but he cannot allow that spermatazoa to record theories about his purpose (correct in every detail)--which theories no spermatazoa could ever...
...cope with poetic cadences. But when he says that the fall of Oedipus is inevitable, gods or no gods, you ought to believe him. The gods have been blamed long enough. Arrogance alone causes Oedipus' problems. His arrogant, or if you prefer, hubristic pride is the tragic flaw in an otherwise noble character...
...film in color-an inappropriate mode for a fiction written in etched, formal prose, devoid of the sensual palette. Secondly, because the movie was made for television, its time is arbitrarily restricted to an hour-too protracted for spare storytelling and too limited for character development. The most grievous flaw is the choice of the story itself...
...called a "sophisticated" array of weapons used by the demonstrators. It included a pingpong ball studded with nails, a jar containing two black-widow spiders, bricks, broken bottles and a razor blade. About 100 such weapons were exhibited-hardly an overwhelming arsenal for 10,000 "terrorists." The principal flaw in the Daley report is that while concentrating on the admitted provocations to police by many of the youths, it virtually ignores the savagery of police in attacking demonstrators, newsmen and onlookers alike. The most that Daley would concede is that "some innocent bystanders may have been injured" in one police...
Geer, who in his own experience, and those of his friends, has seen the great results meditation can have, was simply trying to defend a process that he regards as valuable. But he has the great flaw of all those connected with Maharishi's techings. He refuses to admit that any aspect of the movement, or any decision of the people in it, can be improved...