Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flaw of Spacks' book is that she protests too much: as if unsure of the validity of her thesis, she overwhelms us with putative evidence of the centrality of boredom as a phenomenon. This evidence often consists of veritable lists of the appearances of the word boring (in one of its forms) in the text under consideration, which proves indeed that boredom appears in the text, but not that it is what makes the text work...
...other alums dispute that conclusion. They argue that the key flaw in Rudenstine's argument is his assumption that Harvard's actions won't make a difference on the national scene...
...will pay the bill. Says Iwan of Caltech: ``The really difficult issue is what to do with the existing stock of less-safe, potentially hazardous structures. They're already built and paid for, there is probably a different owner, and now you've discovered there's a flaw. Who is responsible, the owner or the original builders...
Still, I love the world of sports, enough to possibly devote my life to them; and I know deep down that I'll always owe this character flaw to my father. The world of The Bunker helped him to escape reality; self-psychoanalysis tells me that I wanted to escape with him, and here I am, still trying, having chosen the sports medium as my favorite. There are enough people like me who use the sports world as a daily escape to justify full-color covers of sports sections in newspapers all over the country; if I'm lucky...
...Crimson has always passed the puck a lot on the power play, perhaps more than it should; that seems to be another flaw of this year's unit, although not particularly any more than usual. And Harvard still manages to find a way to light the lamp an average of once a night on the man-advantage...but somehow, we expect more. Here, more than anywhere, there are gaping holes to fill...