Word: flaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...uses sources and formal interviews--he has credibility. Not only is he the best media critic in the country, he is seriously committed to social change, and is an important critic of society as well. His articles on the business community fill a gap that has been the greatest flaw in American journalism for year. But all with a light touch--when he tells us that California oil and banking interests have traded in Ford for Reagan, and gives convincing evidence for his claim, he titles his revelation "Bozo Must...
...CHUL look favorably on the Grabar proposal if it had this inherent flaw? One major reason was that some Quad representatives, including Grabar, saw the plan as their only hope for keeping freshmen in the Quad Houses. Alan E. Heimert '49, Eliot House master, while no advocate of Quad causes, is a defender of master's interests and saw the Grabar resolution favorably as "the first time in seven years that the CHUL has voted in favor of any form of House autonomy." And so the Grabar proposal passed with the rare alliance of Heimert and the Quad...
Fussell's class bias is the only flaw in his otherwise brilliant analysis. And whether or not you believe that World War I has a unique and monolithic legacy for our way of seeing things, it has certainly reinforced certain modes of perception. War is one of the few experiences that whole cultures can share. In the past ten years, we all shared Vietnam by watching it on television. We saw it in a heap of bodies at Mylai, in the naked girl running down a road crying as napalm burned through her skin. But, as Fussell says, our culture...
...lives. Even those who profess violent disagreement with Union Leader politics cannot help but be co-opted by Loeb's frame of reference, if only as part of an effort to oppose him. In Kevin Cash's failure to transcend this level of contention lies his book's major flaw...
...take it for granted, and the reader is forced to as well, because there seems to be little reason for and even less development in this love. But the unreal quality of their relationship in no way makes either of them less believable. Like the interfering omniscient narrator, this flaw is superfluous and can be ignored without damage to the novel as a whole. As she continues to widen her scope and refine her technique, Drabble will probably take care of these imperfections next time around. By then, the mirror should be polished...