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...GREATEST FLAW of this collection is its attempt to conglomerate individual pieces of experience or thought without wrapping them together coherently. It seems that his smorgasbord is perhaps the foundation for a larger work, such as a novel similar to On the Road, by Ginsberg's literary comrade. Jack Kerouac this lack of rigorous definition in his work has been a common criticism by academics...
Since I understand that Dr. Counter plans on leaving the Foundation after this academic year, the purpose of this letter is not just to address the misjudgement of one man, but to point out a fundamental flaw in the structure of the organization. Namely, there are no students on the voting board of the Foundation. It is difficult to understand how this board can make decisions concerning race relations among undergraduates without a single undergraduate, Third World or White, in its body. Certainly, there are students who have selflessly helped coordinate several Foundation events, but those students do not have...
Conable listened to Jimmy Carter's entreaties. But it did not take long for the Congressman to detect the flaw in that presidency. "Carter conferred with God, Rosalynn and Amy and then made judgments about what was right and wrong, but he did not lead," says Conable. He was distressed when Jerry Ford did not get a second term because he felt Ford put results above personal glory. Nixon had to be moved off the national stage. Ford did it by pardoning him. Ford was then defeated...
...maintain it consistently throughout. It is most definitely a work which depends on its cast coming together early and acting as one organic whole. But as a group, they simply don't mesh well together until the second act. The first hour remains choppy and discontinuous, possibly a flaw as much in the play itself as in the production...
...This flaw has yet to prove fatal, although a poor box-out job last week did give Brooklyn College a futile final shot in regulation...